Sustainable, Affordable, Super Cool: What’s Not to Like? Travelers with reason to visit Danbury, Conn. (right on the border of both Westchester and Putnam counties in New York) might look into a stay at Hotel Zero Degrees, which opened in the fall of 2016. This adventurer happens upon it thanks to a wedding invitation, and…
Category: United States
Puparazzi in Pursuit
New York City Street Art Makes the Viewer its Focus Sculptures of photographers doggedly pursuing their subject—so much so that they have developed snouts and floppy ears—are positioned at the intersection of West Eighth Street, Avenue of the Americas, and Greenwich Avenue (AKA the Ruth Wittenberg Triangle). More formally known as the Paparazzi Dogs, they…
Overnight at the Hotel Azura
Convenience in a Boutique Hotel in Santa Rosa Long having implemented a one-night-luxe, one-night-budget approach to travel, the Brawny Sherpa and I find ourselves briefly in Santa Rosa, Calif. for an overnight that is going to be on the cheap. But will it be pleasant? We book a stay at the Hotel Azura. People…
A Food Truck Worth Making a Destination in Petaluma
The Wonders of the El Dorado Mexican Grill Food Truck Should you find yourself road-tripping from San Francisco to places north on Highway 101, make it a point to stop for a snack, lunch, anything at the El Dorado Mexican Grill Food Truck on the grounds of the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds. Rest assured that adventurers, bashful or…
Santa Rosa’s Charles M. Schulz Museum: Good for Grownups?
Happiness Is … a Visit to Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Rest of the Peanuts Gang Although it has been a long, long time since I read a Peanuts cartoon or cracked open my personal copy of Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, I cannot resist visiting the Charles M. Schulz Museum once I learn of its…
What to do at Manhattan’s Bowling Green
Seeing New York City One Subway Stop at a Time From my catalogue of good ideas is the notion of exploring a city one subway stop at a time. This approach works well with a city in which you happen to live, for those cities you happen to live near, and even for one-off cities…
Where to Brush by the Revolution
I haven’t visited any places specifically to learn about the War of Independence, but I have stumbled upon little reminders at a few places. Seeing little bits of the past brings history alive for me. I know I learned about the Revolutionary War in school, but now it’s so much easier to remember what I…
Visiting the Revolution through Books
American history keeps coming to me as I travel in the northeastern United States. I realize that, as a political science major, I learned more about the French and the Russian revolutions than the one had here at home. French Comte Rochambeau rode through my town; George Washington was in the area; how could I…
Dining Before the Revolution in Kingston
The Brawny Sherpa and I toodle around upstate New York with no specific plan in mind. Just enjoying a seasonal drive, stopping where we like at whim, doing so much of nothing, we get hungry. We are fortunate to stumble upon the Hoffman House Tavern in Kingston, N.Y. where we enter the 17th century. The…
Mapleshade Cemetery and Revolution in Ridgefield, CT
The Bashful Adventurer visits the graves of Revolutionary War casualties in Mapleshade Cemetery in Ridgefield, Conn. What will she learn there?