Pickwick Lodge Round Top

Late start today.

Last night I decided to see if I could get a copy of a very old DOS based game I used to play about 15 years ago. I do have this on disc back at Fordy Towers but that is no use to me here – so I went for a search. After an aborted download that wouldn't run with the laptop’s diddy monitor I found another th...

I woke up this morning pretty late. By the time I manage to get out of bed, I give Dave a call to see if he's still up for our trip to Vermont.

Last night, we firmed up our Couchsurfing host and made sure the Ben & Jerry's factory was open on a Saturday. It was, so we were ready to go. Or so we thought.

"Hey Dave, when are ...

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We arrived home after a gratefully uneventful trip from Lake Como. We returned the rental car we used to drive from Newark back to Woodstock, shopped a bit, and returned home. It was a sensational trip, and we hope that those of you who read the blog enjoyed reading about our exploits. Lake Como is surely as close as we have eve...

We leave next Friday, September 25, 2009 for Laura's 11th trip to Italy, my 18th (2 other trips to Europe which did not include Italy). We are flying to Venice via Paris and then spending 4 nights at our favorite hotel in Venice, Pensione Accademia. On Wed, Sept 30 we will rent a car in Venice and drive north through the Dolomites via, Belluno, ...

Never having traveled in New York state outside of Manhattan, I was dazzled by the natural beauty of rural New York. (Of course, my encounter with a roadside frozen coffee drink hut right over the state line didn't hurt my first impression either.) I had registered for a 3-day zen meditation retreat in the Catskills months ago, and was looking f...

121.6 Miles From Brooklyn

Fraleigh's Rose Hill Farm is located in Red Hook, New York, in beautiful Upstate New York. The day was abundant with sunshine, the trees full of peaches, and the bushes with raspberries. There were apples too, but the day belonged to the former.

Photo's from The Road Less Traveled http://www.artistrisi...

Shaan and I took a skip trip with a bunch of friends. A lot of friends. So many friends, in fact, that there were google docs of groceries and surveys over snacks. This was Shaan's first time skiing and he did a great job.

The Saturday morning we left began a little rough--there was a fight, which we can laugh about now, which involved ...

Shaan and I wanted to get out of the city to go see changing colors of the trees--it took a while to plan. No other friends wanted to go, so we booked it ourself. We finally were able to make these plans for late November. After work on a Friday, I tried to go to the midtown Alamo but found the experience to be most unpleasant and more expensive...

What a cold night it was last night! So much so that we had ice on the windows this morning – on the inside!! It was still very cold and also very foggy when we got up around 7.30am, and an hour later when Neil started to get the bus ready for us to move on, the ice was still on the inside of the windows! And so, donning hats and gloves, w...

It was teenagers session, the craziest one. The campers would run, jump all around and would not let stand for a minute their counsellors. Madness! There also arrived to our camp a few counsellors from other camps, where the season was over. In that way I met e.g. Martha from London and Ioana from Romania. We spent a lot of fun time together. Th...