Last Friday, I went to NYC’s Museum of Modern Art for a story I was writing about an artist whose goal it is to draw Every Person In New York. (By the way, you don’t have to live in NYC to be part of the project — as long as you’re in the city when […]
Happy July 4th! Nothing makes me feel more American than having a band play “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “American the Beautiful” while I’m watching fireworks on Independence Day. I love a good display of fireworks anywhere anytime, but there’s something really special about watching it on July 4th. This year, I went to a friend’s […]
I've always enjoyed watching the Westminster Dog Show on TV, so this year I decided to go see it live at Madison Square Garden. I got a ticket for day one (yesterday), which entitled me to attend the show from 8 AM—11PM. Only the evening part, the group judging (pictured above), is broadcast on USA; […]
Today was an official Snow Day in New York City. They made the decision to close the schools the day before, because the threat of the storm was so bad. Or maybe it was because we’ve hardly had any snow this winter, and the city was ready to embrace it. As you can see, it […]
Merry Christmas! Does visiting Rockefeller Center in the bitter cold at the ridiculously crowded time of 7 PM on December 23rd count as adventure travel? Well, it should!
Tomorrow, people from all over the world will be running the marathon in New York City. Runners who come from far and wide always say there is no better to place to run a marathon because not only does the course take you all over the city but because the cheering spectators help keep them […]
Too bad I don't have a "What Took Me So Long?" category, because this post would definitely fall into it. (Actually, quite a few would, so perhaps I should add one.) But in this case, I'm not talking about why I waited so long to write a post. No, I mean what took me so […]
No one would ever call me a big sports fan. (Unless they were being sarcastic.) But there is one sporting event that I love and that I have gone to for the last several years: The US Open. Most of the year, the game of tennis doesn’t even cross my mind. But that all changes […]
It’s one of the great ironies of hotels that the higher room rate, the less likely it is to include breakfast. And if you want a good laugh, just take a look at the room service menu, where breakfast always seems to have the highest markup. And the hotels make the morning meal so tempting, […]
Initially, I had planned to call this post "Ithaca is Gorges." That's a popular t-shirt and bumper sticker slogan praising the awesome town of Ithaca, NY, for its gorgeous gorges. But then I discovered that the subject of this post, Taughannock Falls State Park , is actually in Trumansburg, NY, a few miles away from […]
