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Tag Archives: Monumental Thoughts
Monumental Thoughts turns 8
Happy birthday to Monumental Thoughts . . . again. I’ve just finished eight years of tour guiding and writing this blog, which is mostly a journey of continued learning. Last summer saw my 1,000th post of the sites and sights … Continue reading
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Tagged Best D.C. walking tours, Monumental Thoughts, Photo by Rick Snider
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My 1,000th post
Eight years ago, I started this blog as a new tour guide. It chronicles much of what I learn and see as a tour guide in my hometown of Washington, D.C. And this is post No. 1,000. Wow, where does … Continue reading
New look for our website
Thanks to Russian hackers (really), we were forced to close our business-side website Capital Photo History Tours.com. I’d insert a joke here, but frankly it wasn’t funny. So everything is now on this website – our tours, photo tips and … Continue reading
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Tagged best DC walking tours, Monumental Thoughts, Photo by Lisa Snider
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Monumental Thoughts turns 6
Year Six of my blog – where does the time go? Another year walking the streets of Washington, telling stories and tall tales to folks from everywhere. Students from across the nation, doctors from Pakistan and India, families on vacation, … Continue reading
Happy fifth anniversary to us
Thanks to a man from South Africa, more people read my little blog on Washington’s monuments, memorials and everyday life over the past year than ever before. His advice on driving more Google traffic literally doubled web traffic. Year five … Continue reading
Happy 4th birthday to Monumental Thoughts
Monumental Thoughts celebrates its fourth birthday. Wow, and they said we wouldn’t last a week. Well, I don’t know who said that but if someone did that they would be wrong. Year four saw 13,334 visitors. Over four years, 82,628 … Continue reading
Happy third anniversary — to Monumental Thoughts
Monumental Thoughts.com celebrates its third anniversary wondering how it really did this past year. Those evil spammers messed up my google analytics reports for six months. Every day they’d try about 100 times to leave messages and links for whatever. … Continue reading
Happy second anniversary to Monumental Thoughts
Two years, 462 posts and 37,615 readers — it has been a good two years for my blog. Monumental Thoughts started as my public study guide as a new tour guide after licensed a couple months earlier. I’d learn things … Continue reading
Happy New Year from Monumental Thoughts
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Tagged Monumental Thoughts, Photo by Megan Snider, Washington D.C.
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Happy birthday to Monumental Thoughts
One year down, a few more to go. MonumentalThoughts.com celebrates its one-year anniversary today. It’s my personal journey of becoming a licensed tour guide in Washington and passing along the knowledge of the many monuments, memorials, markers, statues and observations … Continue reading
Happy half birthday to Monumental Thoughts
Hard to believe six months have passed since starting this blog. Some 4,578 visitors have seen the only blog that posts near daily about Washington, D.C.’s monuments, memorials, statues and other attractions. That’s not a great number, but nowadays I’m … Continue reading
5 Questions on Lincoln’s swearing-in and inaugural banquet re-enactments
Abraham Lincoln returns to Washington on March 5 for the sesquicentennial celebration of his first inauguration. John T. Elliff of The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia explains the importance of the re-enactment of the swearing-in at the Capitol … Continue reading
