It's finally here! Road trip season! We love road trips, but planning a road trip, especially with a family of 5 can be expensive yet one of the best values in family travel. You get to see much more than if you just flew to one destination and the opportunit[...]
Oh, New Jersey. You never cease to amaze me. We've enjoyed finding more and more ways to spend time outdoors, in nature. But most of all, we've been able to enjoy it all at minimal cost, if not free. We've such enjoyed these awesome finds that when we aren't travel[...]
It seems that my visits to Austin, TX are destined to be filled with days of food coma close encounters. It's not my fault, Austin is just that kind of town. I mean, yes, its got that whole hipster, artsy, music thing going for it, but the food. Oh, the food. It'[...]
On a lazy Saturday, one of the first of Spring, my family and I decided to venture out to Dutchess County, NY on a maple farm tour. We had first toured a maple syrup farm in Lake Placid a couple of years ago, and though the terrain was had more snow and the weat[...]
What is so great about NJ, I am finding, is that like NYC, it has a lot of different neighborhoods, each with its own personality. Traveling into a different neighborhood can make for a nice list of varied experiences and opportunities to explore. This weekend,[...]
The first time I heard about the Finger Lakes in upstate New York was while sipping on one of their delicious red wines and laughing it up with one of their lovely tourism representatives - the ladies are indeed lovely, but the wine definitely helped bring on the[...]
My absolute favorite thing to do almost immediately after Thanksgiving is head out to a Christmas tree farm with my entire crew to cut down our tree. We prefer to cut our own when we can, so it is one of the options we look for when deciding what farm we will vi[...]
It's that time of the year! This year we discovered a new place to go pumpkin picking in Toano, VA at Pumpkinville and instead of venturing upstate like we have in the past, we decided to discover apple picking in New Jersey. Honestly, as I started writing this pos[...]
After our fun adventures at Chocolate World, the family and I couldn't wait to visit Hershey Park. I had heard so much about the park from so many different people who have gone, and never once have I heard anyone say anything negative about it, we just needed to g[...]
It has been two years. Two years since we have been to Governors Island. I don't know why. Maybe because the last time we went it was so pathetically crowded (it was the opening day for the season after all), that I lost interest in going back, despite the great ti[...]
