Hudson River Valley, NY – September 2015 As we’re still settling into our apartment and exploring the city, we haven’t had a chance to really take as many trips as we’d like. Must make do with what we have, I suppose! I escaped my hot, no airconditioning apartment for a weekend to explore the hudson river valley (and…
Month: July 2016
Providence & Newport, RI
December 2015 We originally planned on taking a ski trip with our two other friends, but there was very minimal snow in mid-December. Instead, we all took a roadtrip to one of the only places within driving distance that I had not yet visited – the great state of Rhode Island. Completely feasible to do in…
East Coast Roadtrip
May 2015: Baltimore – Shenandoah National Park – Blue Ridge Mountains – Chesapeake Bay – Outer Banks – Raleigh, NC We had originally wanted to take a cross-country road trip, but that would have taken almost a month. Our second option was to fly to the west coast and loop around major landmarks and state…
White Mountains, NH
White Mountains, NH & Green Mountains, VT “Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.” – W.B.Yeats For fall break, we decided to take a roadtrip up to New Hampshire/Vermont…
New Orleans
May 2014 My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up – not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. – Allen Toussaint This was a long time ago, and I am writing this…
Amish Country, NJ, & Boston
JUNE 2015 In a quest to do as many day trips from my home city (in June 2015, it was Philadelphia) as possible, we gathered up two of our friends and meandered over to Lancaster County. It was a decently long drive (maybe 1.5 hours) to farmland, and then we had trouble finding the main…
Finger Lakes & Poconos Mtns
Roadtrip 2: Poconos Mountains, PA – Finger Lakes, NY Who knew you could find such beauty in upstate New York? The Finger Lakes area must be one of the most picturesque places in the eastern United States. There’s an entire cluster of state parks filled with magnificent waterfalls and trails – we did too many,…
Assateague Island & Ocean City
Roadtrip 1: Assateague Island, VA- Ocean City, MD – Winterthur, DE One last roadtrip before going off to summer camp! On our May roadtrip, we had passed by Chincoteague Island and drove by to look at the wild horses. I wanted to go back to the adjacent Assateague Island and actaually do some beach exploring,…
Montreal & Adirondacks
December 31- January 3, 2016 Notre Dame Basilica ($5 entrance fee) We rang in the New Year with some of our closest friends in..Ole Canada! Montreal is only an easy, 6 – hour drive from the heart of Manhattan (or a beautiful train ride through the heart of the Hudson Valley, but there’s only one trip…
Charleston, SC
January 16 2016 Another Christmas Present Trip! After getting us tickets to go to St. Petersburg last year, I think this is becoming tradition. We stayed right outside downtown Charleston, in Mount Pleasant, equidistant from downtown and plantations in the other direction. Sadly, my DSLR was out of commission for this trip…so please excuse the iPhone…
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