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- Find Four Pedestrian Bridges Hidden In San Diego June 30, 2019
- Barrio Logan, San Diego: Chicano Park & Las Cuatro Milpas June 26, 2019
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- Take a Taco Tour in San Diego June 19, 2019
- Tour the Kombucha Breweries of San Diego June 16, 2019
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- San Diego’s 5 Peak Challenge Mission Trails Regional Park June 9, 2019
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- Experience Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico May 29, 2019
- Walk the Haiku Path at Santa Fe Community College May 26, 2019
- Drink the Elixir at Kakawa Chocolate House in Santa Fe, NM May 22, 2019
- Hike the Tree Spring Trail in Sandia Mountains, NM May 18, 2019
- Tinkertown Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico May 15, 2019
- World’s Largest Rattlesnake in Albuquerque, New Mexico May 12, 2019
- Museums of University of New Mexico in Albuquerque May 5, 2019
- Exploring Petroglyph National Monument Albuquerque, NM May 1, 2019
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Neuberger Museum of Art
Bold African sculptures and textiles downstairs, and eclectic paintings and sculptures upstairs; if you’re living around Westchester, New York you must get yourself to the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase [735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY 10577-1400 Follow the … Continue reading
Posted in Westchester County
Tagged african art, art, art museum, congo, culture, free, Fun, kuba, kuba textile, Museum of Art, Neuberger, Neuberger Museum, Neuberger Museum of Art, purchase, sculpture, suny purchase, textile, westchester
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Greenwich CT Eats: Meli-Melo
Healthy, funky, fun, and comfy: Lunch at Meli-Melo in Greenwich, Connecticut [362 Greenwich Ave, Greenwich, CT 06830] was a perfect post-hike meal! The menu in this happy yellow space is great! It’s packed with a variety of sweet and savory … Continue reading
Posted in Connecticut
Tagged avocado, bean sprout, crepe, dessert, eat me, feed, greenwich, healthy, home made, home made ice cream, home made sorbet, ice cream, ice cream crepe, lunch, lunch date, meli-melo, nutella, nutella crepe, vegetarian, veggie, yum
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Greenwich CT Hikes: Fairchild Wildflower Sanctuary
Its name doesn’t lie; Fairchild Wildflower Sanctuary is positively bursting with wildflowers! Greenwich, Connecticut is just a stone throw away from the Westchester, New York border and makes for a delightful little day trip. You can find a really wonderful … Continue reading
Posted in Connecticut
Tagged bird watching, birding, connecticut, Fairchild, Fairchild Wildflower Sanctuary, flowers, Fun, greenwich, hiking, meadow, nature, sanctuary, trails, tree swallow, trout lily, violet, waterfall, westchester, wetlands, wild flowers, wildflower, wood anemone, woodpecker, woods
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Adirondack Eats: Sammy D’s Café
I don’t normally make plans to eat at the mall, but Sammy D’s Cafe is a joint to make exceptions for. We had just hiked Buck Mountain and were hungry and in the mood for something hearty. Located in the … Continue reading
Posted in Adirondacks
Tagged adirondacks, adk, adks, avocado, bacon, blt, cheap eats, chicken, cinnamon, cobbler, coleman factory outlets, complimentary, dessert, eat, eat me, feed, free, hippy, homemade bread, house cured meat, lunch, mall, outlet shopping, outlets, peach, peach cobbler, sammy d's, sammy d's cafe, sandwich, shopping, soft serve, the chief, tie-dye, vanilla, yum
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Adirondack Hike: Prospect Mountain
It’s mountain season again, and I couldn’t be happier! A few weeks ago on a chilly spring day we packed our bags and headed for Prospect Mountain, just moments away from Lake George village. [Turn west from on Route 9 … Continue reading
Posted in Adirondacks
Tagged adirondacks, adks, auto-road, birding, chipmunk, elevated walkway, hike, history, lake george, mountain, mountain climbing, nature, possum, prospect mountain, railroad, ruins, trail, views, vista, waterfall
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NYC Eats: Dominique Ansel Bakery
Searching for severely scrumptious sweets in Soho? Look no further than Dominique Ansel Bakery [189 Spring St, New York, NY 10012] where the pastries look as good as they taste. Hop on line and try to decide what you are … Continue reading
Posted in Manhattan, NYC
Tagged bakery, cat, chocolate chip cookie shot, cinnabon, cookie shot, cronut, dessert, Dominique Ansel, Dominique Ansel Bakery, eat me, feed, frozen smores, ice cream, kitty, manhattan, marshmallow, nutella milk bread, nyc, smores, soho, spring st, tahitian vanilla, yum
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NYC: High Line Park and Ganesvoort Market
To take something old and discarded and breathe new life into it is no easy task, but a labor of love. That is what happened at the High Line Park in NYC, opened since 2009, which quickly became a top … Continue reading
Posted in Manhattan, NYC
Tagged architecture, art, culture, flower bed, freedom tower, fruit pop, gansevoort, gansevoort market, hibiscus, high line, high line park, history, ice pop, manhattan, market, mural, new york city, nyc, park, penn station, physical graffiti, pina-jalepeno, rail trail, reuse, sculpture, statue of liberty, yarn bomb
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Ukranian Cuisine in NYC: Korchma Taras Bulba
Walk into this little Soho establishment and you will enter a world different from your own where men and women are walking about in traditional garb and cultural references are abound. If you are looking for unique drink and food … Continue reading
Posted in Manhattan, NYC
Tagged affordable, beef stroganoff, beer snack, complimentary, date night, dumplings, eat me, ethnic cuisine, feed, horseradish vodka, Korchma, Korchma Taras Bulba, kvas, manhattan, minced meat spread, nyc, shots, soho, traditional, Ukrainian, Ukrainian cuisine, vareniki, vodka, yum
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To the top of the Empire State Building!
Another NYC bucket list item can be officially crossed out; I made it to the top of the Empire State Building! Tickets prices are steep at $32 a person, but for me this was a once in a lifetime deal … Continue reading
Posted in Manhattan, NYC
Tagged 86, 86th floor, architecture, brooklyn bridge, bucket list, central park, chrysler building, empire state building, Fun, king kong, manhattan, new york city, nyc, sight seeing, skyline, tourist, view, vista
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Sights of NYC’s Central Park
I grew up living less than 30 minutes away from NYC, a city that people travel from all world to see, and I had never been to Central Park. Wow, I took my location for granted. Well, I made an … Continue reading
Posted in Manhattan, NYC
Tagged alice, alice in wonderland, alice statue, belvedere castle, bethesada terrace, central park, central park zoo, cheshire cat, cityscape, conservatory pond, flowers, frank olmstead, fredrick law olmstead, harlem, lake, manhattan, miniature boat race, nyc, olmstead, peregrine falcon, reservoir, sheep meadow, skyline, spring, strawberry fields, the ramble, the ravine, turtle, waterfall, white rabbit
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