
Tracey Teo
Travel Writer at Freelance
Contributor at Crossroads AAA Member Magazine
GO BIG OR GO HOME! That's my travel philosophy. I'm Tracey Teo, a travel journalist, and I never do anything half way. Come along on my journey!
Articles
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1 week ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Tracey Teo
Share The dockside tour is a bit like being an actor in a movie and just as thrilling. After all, it’s not every day you get to load a gunpowder cartridge and use a linstock to shoot a cannon on a 110-foot vessel that portrayed a pirate ship in two “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies. Unlike the fictional pirate Jack Sparrow, the Continental Navy didn’t fight a Kraken, but it did fight a monster of a different sort — the British Royal Navy.
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1 week ago |
ajc.com | Tracey Teo
At the John Warner Maritime Heritage Center at Waterfront Park in Alexandria, Virginia, each visitor is assigned a crew member identity before embarking on a living history tour of Tall Ship Providence, a reproduction of an 18th century warship that was one of the first in the fledgling Continental Navy. For the duration of the tour, I am Able Seaman sailing on the U.S.S. Providence during the American Revolution.
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4 weeks ago |
ajc.com | Tracey Teo
As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region’s famous native son B.B. King croons “Why I Sing the Blues” on the radio. Music that sprung from suffering fills me with joy, and I contemplate the paradox. This stretch of the Blues Highway cuts through the endless snow-white cotton fields that once defined the region.
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2 months ago |
kentuckymonthly.com | Tracey Teo
Shawnee warriors led by Chief Blackfish have lurked outside Logan’s Fort for weeks, forcing its inhabitants to live under a cloud of fear and anxiety. Venturing outside the Kentucky frontier fort is risky, but food is scarce, so on May 30, 1777, three brave women put on their bonnets and leave to milk cows under the protection of William Hudson, Burr Harrison, John Kennedy and James Craig—all armed with flintlock muskets. The party immediately is ambushed.
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2 months ago |
chicagotribune.com | Tracey Teo
In the fashion archives at New York Vintage, a swanky vintage couture shop in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, I tried on a pair of 1980s bird cage earrings worn by Madonna in a provocative shoot for Vanity Fair Italia in 2023. These dangling works of art are too heavy to be practical, but what a glamorous look. Of course, nothing here is meant to be practical. Much of the extensive collection is over the top.
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