Category: Travel

Visiting Grant’s Tomb

Visiting Hamilton Grange: Alexander Hamilton’s Uptown Quiet Home

How My Kids Spent $160 on Tiny Rubber Ducks on a Royal Caribbean Cruise

Parenting Travel

Beware of Dolphins: They lead you on then leave you behind

Taking my kids on a Royal Caribbean Cruise for Self-Care

Note to Travelers – Always Chat up the Hotel Bartender: A Crowne Plaza story

New York City Travel

Visiting the Hamilton Dueling Grounds

15 ways to Unplug and Occupy Your Time While Traveling

Magnolia Plantation is a Great Place to Explore with Your Family

Mont Tremblant Provides Great Views, Beer, and Some Bruises

The Winter is the Best Time to Buy a Vacation Home

New York City Parenting Travel

Temper Tantrum at 1,776 Feet: Visiting Santa in Winter Onderland at One World Trade

New York City Travel

Going to Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade? Here Are 5 Tips

Walking in Montreal: Montreal Takes Street Art to a Different Level

10 Tips For Traveling the Bourbon Trail: Plus a plethora of information

Itinerary for Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail

Gifts Parents Hate
How often do you watch your child unwrap a present and upon seeing the gift, look over at the buyer and think, “What were you thinking?” As a father to four kids, I have quadrupled those moments. Don’t get me wrong, I love it when adults close to me buy my kids gifts. It’s a […]
Bonding With My Sons Over NBA2K21
Last year, a major bonding moment occurred between my sons (ages 16 & 8) and I. My 16-year-old went to Best Buy and came back with NBA2K20. Other than FIFA, all of my son’s games are action-type games. Not really games that you can sit alongside and compete. So when he showed me the game […]
The Lake ‘N” Pines Motel in Cooperstown: The Perfect Place to Stay With Kids
When you’re vacationing with kids, the place where you sleep needs as much consideration as what you do while on vacation. Because I have 4 kids, not only do I need to find a place where all my kids can sleep comfortably, but I need a place that has onsite activities. The hotel/motel/B&B that we […]
Visiting the Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown
The farm life to a New York City kid is a foreign concept. There is a farm in Queens that is on every NYC school’s field trip schedule, but to see a farm, you must be intentional. Seeing cows, goats, and pigs in the Queens Zoo and Bronx Zoo doesn’t quite show what farm life […]
Visiting Cooperstown’s Hyde Hall
Between 1817 and 1834, a mansion designed by Philip Hooker was built for George Clarke. Clarke was a wealthy landowner who inherited a fortune from his grandfather. Before construction began in 1813, Clarke married Ann Low Cary Cooper, a wealthy widow from a prominent New York family. George named his home “Hyde Hall” after his […]