Traveling to New York gave me plenty of lasting memories. I enjoyed walking the Poughkeepsie pedestrian bridge, traversing the Big Apple, visiting Yankee Stadium and so much more. As I wrap up reflecting on my New York road trip, I’ve thought about how road trips are infused with American values, including from the Declaration of…
Category: New York Road Trip
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
I visited Yankee Stadium during my last full day in New York to see a ball game between the New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays. Nicknamed the “House that Ruth Built” after the slugger Babe Ruth, this Yankee Stadium opened up in 2009 next door to the original Yankee Stadium’s location. Raised on…
Go the Distance for Friendship
Dreaming in the field Field of Dreams is one of my favorite sports movies. In the film, Ray Kinsella, a farmer from Iowa played by Kevin Costner, is working in his fields when he hears a voice: “If you build it, he will come.” This begins an adventure where he builds a baseball field, visits…
How to take a one-day bite of the Big Apple
Note: This is Part 1 of the Two-Part New York City blog post. This one focuses on guidance to visiting New York City. Part 2 focuses on the experiences I had in New York City on my one-day visit. After a couple of days in the Hudson Valley region, I ventured into the Big Apple:…
Tasting the Big Apple
Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part post about visiting New York City. Part 1 is about how to do a one-day trip to New York City, and Part 2 is about my experiences going into New York City for the day. As I approached this one-day adventure into New York City, I knew…
Do and Donut…There is No Try
Sunday I joined my sister’s family for church and a visit to the farmer’s market in Beacon. I tasted some really good chocolate goat milk, which is totally a real thing. While chocolate goat milk is a pretty good surprise, the biggest surprise of the day was making a surprise connection with friends of my…
A View to a Life
Flexibility is a part of living with family. You adjust and accommodate so that you can do life together. Visiting family with a young child, I knew that I had to make accommodations as to what I could and could not do with family. Upon hearing about the world’s longest elevated pedestrian bridge in the…
A Brand New Start Of It… After a Hiccup
So a couple days before heading out on my road trip to New York, I received word that a new car registration sticker came in the mail for my car. So I attached the sticker to my license plate, and then I looked at the new registration card. It was for another car in the…
A Hurt Booty: Preparations for the New York Road Trip
When I decided to go to New York for my first road trip of this blog, I didn’t have a whole lot of time to prepare for the trip. I had thought about the road trip blog a couple weeks from my departure trip, and finalized plans about 10 days before leaving to spend June…