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Long Island Music Hall of Fame Museum  (Their website) It is early in the Adventure and the map took us to the […]

Belmont Park Racetrack (Their Website) There are very few attractions that disappoint but none more than this. The track holds 70,000 people […]

Queens Botanical Garden (Their Website)

Shelter Island Mashomack Preserve (Their Website)  A short $26 ten minute ride on a small ferry takes you to Shelter Island. It […]

Coe Mansion and Planting Fields (Their Website) The Coe Mansion is located on a 409 acre property and is one hundred years […]

Bruce always finds at least one attraction that he knows I like and I like aviation museums. From Hill Air Force Museum […]

We stopped here because we finished everything else early. I ran out of steam and wouldn’t do any trails. Enough was enough […]

The Viaduct, once the longest and tallest railroad structure at 2,053 feet long and 301 feet high. On Monday, July 21, 2003, at […]

The Botanical Gardens is a national historic site, education center and tourist destination full of exotic horticulture treasures from around the world. Visitors enjoy the […]

Letchworth State Park, renowned as the “Grand Canyon of the East,” is one of the most scenically magnificent areas in the eastern […]

In September 1986, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) formally assumed ownership of 244 acres in the town of […]

We went to Canada to see this attraction and thankfully it turned out much better than the Whirlpool Aero Car. The Bird […]

The best part of this gem is the descriptive signs on almost every growing thing. Each tree is identified and most ground […]

This prehistoric ocean floor is the world’s largest exposure of quartz conglomerate and is one of the great natural wonders of the […]

Griffis was both interesting and exasperating. It was an interesting mix of traditional and contemporary sculpture. The exasperating part was that the […]

You read the title and said “Huh?” as can be expected. Why would there even BE a lumber museum and what possible […]

Pine Creek Gorge is billed as the Grand Canyon of the East. We were supposed to start at the north entrance and […]

The only words I can use to describe The Corning Museum of Glass are so overused that I’m embarrassed to say it […]

Watkins Glen State Park has 19 waterfalls and we planned to see them all until it became clear that to do so […]

The Robert H. Treman State Park is small but mighty. It has a swimming area that is fed by a waterfall. A […]

We went to Canada (this time we had our passports!) to the Whirlpool Aero Car. This is a Cable Car Ride over the […]

We’re pretty sure this is our 62nd trip. Buffalo should have been checked off the list two years ago but I had […]

We were in New York twice before, in 1985 when I lived in the city and in 2008 in Albany (one of […]

We revisited the 1998 Knoxville trip when my high school friend Bob Luedeka took us fishing. We went on the river again […]

We have been traveling since 1978 and, while most trips are quite a trip, some are more “quite” than others. This was […]

Georgia Excellent Adventure February 11-13. 2005 Bruce and I met up in Greenville, SC and explored the northern most reaches of Georgia. […]

This should have been a wonderful Adventure but life got in the way. DJ and I planned a one month trip with […]

I’m not sure when we went to Rosarito Beach in Baja but I think it was 1989. It was our first and […]

I moved to New York City in 1984 when I married Diana. It was pretty scary at first but I graduated to […]

In our never ending quest to travel to all 50 states Montana kept falling off the schedule because the drive times between […]

We really love Oregon. We did it again. Thursday Portland Rose Garden Without doubt, the best collection of roses we’ve ever seen! […]

Sunken Garden (Their Website) Lettuce Lake (Their Website) Edison Museum (Their Website) Weigert Bonsai Garden (Their Website)

The first Portland trip was one of our best and Bruce decided to go back. We hit fewer places but spent more […]