Sitting at an outdoor café three blocks from the Rome Termini one morning 24 years ago waiting for my friend Julie to arrive, I had no appreciation of the folly of our planning. In the days before cell phones, all I knew for sure was that Julie was scheduled to arrive from the United States…
Category: New York State
Something Different for Date Night: Wine, Cheese & Howling with Wolves
Looking for more than dinner and a movie on date night? Try wine, cheese, and howling with wolves at the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, N.Y.
It Took Me a Lifetime to Get to the Kittle House, and Now I Need to Go Again
The Bashful Adventurer finally visits Crabtree’s Kittle House in Chappaqua, NY. Will this restaurant live up to its good reputation?
Cold Spring, N.Y.: Geo. Washington Drank Here
The Bashful Adventurer gets away to Cold Spring, NY and learns some history about the first president of the United States
Are Historical Sites Honest about Slavery?
The global tumult of the last week—the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and global unrest stemming, allegedly, from disgust with a video about Muslims made by a film maker in the United States—makes the celebration of the U.S. Constitution just a little more poignant. Travel, for me, has always made history lessons come…
Getting Going
I drove solo six or so hours to my high school reunion last summer and was surprised when I got there when one of my classmates said, “I would never have made that drive alone.” I remember thinking, Why not? I had first traveled solo for a vacation more than 20 years ago. I gave…