The lights dim.

Heavy metal pounds over the Arena México sound system, and the announcer's deep-throated Spanish thunders into the microphone.

One of the dozens of roving Corona men delivers me a fresh 20 oz. beer.

On the runway connecting the huge projection screen to the small square ring in the middle...

Key West is a city and an island of the same name, the county seat of Monroe County, and an island in the Florida Keys. Key West AIDS Memorial lies on White Street and Atlantic Boulevard...

Santa Clara is a town in the South Bay part of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California. It is best known as the Silicon Valley city. I am a routine traveler so I keep traveling whenever I get time and have sufficient money. This time I went to see the Santa ...

Baseball is leaving RFK Stadium on Sept. 23 for a new shiny stadium next season just a couple miles away. Another of Washington's monuments will be overlooked once more.

RFK was D.C. Stadium in 1961 when opening for the Senators and Redskins teams. It became RFK in 1969 to honor slain presidential...

It is difficult to know where to begin this. It is difficult to know where to start anything in Afghanistan. This was the 38th nation I have visited thus far in my life. I have lived in seven. There is an ambiance about this place that forces one to deeply examine the recesses of one’s soul....

Squash is similar to Racquetball in that games are played in enclosed courts, there are two players, and participants are typically wearing goofy-looking goggles.

But that is where the similarities end.

Squash is a game of skill, precision, athleticism, dexterity and thought, and the ball needs...

One of the joys of learning a language is discovering words or phrases that have no direct translation. You can spot these multi-faceted gems because they take a bit of extra care to explain. Each connotation chips away at the word in an attempt to lay bare the essence, but the essence can only be...