Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Ride The Ducks

Newport joins the likes of Boston, Seattle, Baltimore, and San Francisco by becoming the eighth U.S. location to offer Ride The Ducks tours, a unique and fun - but also educational - sightseeing tour.  These boat-shaped cars… er, car-shaped boats… er, boat-shaped cars can travel on land and water, providing a unique tour route never [...]

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Dancing Across Cincinnati

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. But, hey, whatever.

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

All Aboard The Anderson Ferry!

For some reason, I always want to call the Anderson Ferry the Harper’s Ferry. …Cool boat to get across the Ohio river… first battle of the Civil War… you can see my confusion. In any case, I hadn’t ridden the ferry in a while, so I took my camera out for a drive [...]

Saturday, September 18th, 2004

Nice spot to read

There’s a man sitting on a bench reading a book by the Ohio river. He’s there everyday and he never moves.

It’s a statue of James Bradley, a slave turned educator and Underground Railroad conductor.
He fools me everytime I walk down there. In the wintertime, someone usually puts a scarf around his neck and a hat [...]

Wednesday, August 25th, 2004

Sawyer Point’s Flying Pigs

This is a detail that is missed by people who don’t look up. Flanking the entrance to the Sawyer Point park on the Ohio River are a set of steamboat stacks. At the top are four flying pigs, celebrating the city of Cincinnati’s one-thriving hog processing and packing industry. In the television program “WKRP In [...]