Brooklyn, United States Travel Blogs

The One With the Obsessive Itinerary
Jul 8, 2007 (1 photos)

... ; If you're one of these people then the next update will be a lot more interesting! Day 1: Friday, August 3 - Leave Brooklyn at 5:00 AM, Drive down I95 (stopping for breakfast at a rest stop on the Jersey Turnpike), Stop overnight in Savannah, ...

Day 29: Home, Sweet Home
Aug 6, 2005 (18 photos)

... ; At 10:00 we went over the Verrazano Bridge and got a great view of the city.  And then we saw the welcome sign... "Brooklyn, How Sweet It Is!"  And it definitely was.  I was sad that we were back home after such a great vacation, but after ...

Pre-Trip Part I: The History of the Trip
May 7, 2005

I love Disney.  The movies, music, TV shows... everything.  So of course Disney World is one of my favorite places in the world!  My first trip to Orlando was back in 1992 with my parents and my brother.  I was five at the time and ...

Pre-Trip Part II: Adding a Few Attractions
May 25, 2005

... have three weeks of school left - next week we have Monday off for Memorial Day, the week after we have Thursday off for Brooklyn Day and I'm staying home on Friday since Thursday night is the prom, and the next week school ends on Wednesday.  Then it ...

Pre-Trip Part IV: Making Some Changes
Jun 5, 2005

Just when I think I'm done with the major planning, I always find something to change.  What can I say, I love planning vacations! So, first of all, I changed around some of our priority seating's.  On our first morning in Orlando we were going to eat at ...

Pre-Trip Part V: Changing Our Priority Seating's
Jun 7, 2005

This afternoon I decided to show mom the restaurants I had picked.  Her most commonly said phrase? "That's so expensive!"  Yes, I did pick expensive restaurants.  Most of them she was fine with - good food, reasonable prices, fun atmosphere ...

Pre-Trip Part III: Shopping for Toiletries
Jun 1, 2005

Today mom and I went to Eckerd to pick up some toiletries.  I know it's still pretty early but there are a lot of things I need to remember to pack, some of which I don't have, and I want to make sure I don't forget anything. I got three big three ...

The One With All the Changes
Jul 13, 2007 (1 photos)

... won't be too bad this way.  They weren't too bad in 2005 so I've got high hopes. Day 1: Friday, August 3 - Leave Brooklyn at 5:00 AM, Drive down I95 (stopping for breakfast at a rest stop on the Jersey Turnpike), Stop overnight in Savannah, ...

The One With the Pre-Trip Saga
Jul 7, 2007 (20 photos)

... the drive down we stop at as many rest stops as possible and it's a lot of fun.  Well, the first few states are.  Jersey, Delaware and Maryland have actual rest stops with restaurants and shops but everything after that is just bathrooms.  ...

The One With the Pizza Party
Aug 2, 2007 (14 photos)

For me, the vacation always starts the day before the vacation.  It's really the best day - the vacation's finally here but none of it is over yet.  It's the best!  Anyway, I woke up at 10:30 this morning after not getting much sleep.  ...

The Day Before
Jul 9, 2005 (1 photos)

... a month made them both a little emotional. I was going to miss them, but I just wanted to get going and get out of Brooklyn already! Alison saw mom and Aunt Stacy crying so SHE started crying saying, "Aunt Debbie, I want to go with you!" We assured her ...

The One With the History Of the Trip
Jul 5, 2007

After a good six months of this travel blog sitting here untouched, I'm finally ready to start the pre-trip report for our upcoming Florida vacation!  Before I begin, though, I have to mention how I'm going to title each post.  Sure the titles ...

Pre-Trip Part VI: Shopping for Disney Stuff Online
Jun 9, 2005

Last weekend mom and I went online to Disneydirect.com and ordered a few things.  We each got a Miss Piggy nightshirt that shows her with a boa on and her finger up saying, "Are you talking to moi?"  I also got a pink Tinker Bell jacket, a ...

Pre-Trip Part VII: Our Trip to AAA
Jun 11, 2005

... .  It has information and tips for travelling with your pets, as well as pet-friendly accommodations in every city throughout the United States and Canada.  I looked up the hotels in Florence, South Carolina since that's the half-way point between New York ...

Pre-Trip Part VIII: Two Free Tickets to Sea World
Jun 13, 2005

A few days ago we went online to check out how many Visa Member Rewards points mom and dad have on their cards.  They had a lot so mom went ahead and got a new clock/radio/CD player for the kitchen.  Then I decided to look and see if there was anything I ...

Pre-Trip Part IX: A Few Bumps in the Road
Jun 15, 2005

Today was my last day of high school classes.  I graduate on the 27th, I got into the college I wanted, and we leave for Orlando in 24 days.  I should be psyched, right?!  Well, not exactly... We're all falling apart.  Two years ago ...

Pre-Trip Part X: Only a Week to Go
Jun 30, 2005

Everything with our ailments turned out to be ok.  Oreo wound up having a cyst on her back and needed surgery to remove it.  The surgery went well and the biopsy report came back negative.  I found out that I do have TMJ and there's not ...

Pre-Trip Part XI: Getting Ready to Leave
Jul 4, 2005

"Water, water everywhere, we're gonna get wet! Won't you come along on a river ride..."  That's one of my favorite songs from the "Ride the Roller Coaster" Kids Songs Tape my brother and I had when we were little.  I love the song, but I didn't ...

Pre-Trip Part XII: Some New Ideas
Jul 6, 2005

So, we're three days away... three days!  It's so surreal!  It really doesn't feel like the trip is so close, but I'm definitely glad that it is.  I just hope that the next four weeks go by very, very slowly, the hurricanes stay away, the ...

The One With the Waffles
Jul 26, 2007 (2 photos)

Wow, it's been a while.  There's good news, though... we leave in 11 days!  How crazy is that?!  The time is flying by at a scary pace and I just hope the actual vacation doesn't go by this fast...  I've been passing the time by ...

Ngunye Retreat and 2 Adeles in Nam
Dec 26, 2006 (2 photos)

... retreat to do a practice called Ngunye which includes a vow of silence and fasting over a 4-day period in my neighborhood in Brooklyn at Diamond Way Buddhist Center (where I've been practicing at since May). The type of retreat I'm doing is a purification ...

More Yosemite and NYC and Brooklyn
Aug 22, 2006 (30 photos)

... just drunk. I arrived in NYC last night and was picked up at JFK by my dear friend Mallory. We headed back to Brooklyn where she and her brother's family live and had dinner at a local Austrian restaurant. They were serving beef stew or fried trout ...

Did we order the Artichoke dip?
Aug 30, 2006 (11 photos)

Mal and I spent our evening last night enjoying drinks and dinner at this bar called the "Farm" right off of Flatbush near her house. It was our second time there since I arrived. They have the most amazing artichoke dip as well as other yummies! The ...

Brooklyn, Manhattan continued
Aug 28, 2006

As the saying goes, the more things change the more they stay the same. I'm sitting here with Mallory watching the Emmys just like we used to do when we were roomies years ago in the Bay Area. Not only has the weather remained cool, storms have moved in ...

Rooftop NYC
Aug 24, 2006 (3 photos)

... to do! Mallory and her brother's family live in this amazing renovated brownstone near Flatbush in the Prospect Heights part of Brooklyn. her brother's family has the main floor and the lower level. Their mom has a studio apartment on the second floor ...

Return to Broooklyn Bridge
Aug 6, 2008 (42 photos)

... any other bridges that I know. This time, I returned just by myself. I crossed the bridge again, and then walked around Brooklyn looking at NY skyline. I happen to meet Heidi Muller, on the shuttle bus on the way to the airport. She travels all ...

The Wrap-Up
Aug 14, 2006

... ; Once the pool was taken care of everything was fine, and the maintenance man was actually very nice... and originally from Brooklyn! I loved having the house rather than staying in a hotel.  We had so much room and privacy.  I especially ...

Pre-Trip Part IV: The Day Before
Jul 20, 2006 (31 photos)

Today started way too early.  While I hadn't been able to fall asleep until around 3:30, the alarm on my television woke me up at 8:00.  The whole point of getting up at 8:00 all week was to be able to fall asleep earlier than I had been.  ...

Day 23: Take the Long Way Home
Aug 12, 2006 (119 photos)

... tried to take video of it, but for some reason my digital camera doesn't take good video at night. We drove through Brooklyn and were home by 12:30.  We unpacked the car and brought all of our bags in.  The house was really, ...

Pre-Trip Part I: The History of the Trip
Jul 17, 2006

When we got back from our trip to Orlando last year, we had no idea where we were going to go on vacation this year.  Should we go back to Lake George or Lancaster, two of our favorite destinations?  Should we go to Virginia Beach or Niagara Falls, two new ...