I’m currently upstate biding my time rent-free before I take off for New Zealand. That means picking up skim milk at Shop-rite for your sister, running into old teachers you haven’t seen since 4th grade, and exchanging things…always with the exchanging things. Why is it that when you go home you have to run to [...]
Tag Archives: Upstate NY
Spring has Sprung
First day of spring.
70 degree high.
Not even one inch of snow.
See ya’ Upstate.
Meet me at the bocce courts at the winery. My brother and sister will be there, along with my Brooklyn friend Kim to get her first taste of Upstate.
You don’t have to play if you don’t want to. We hang out here [...]
Pick your own
The Travel Bug that bit me this summer was a big son of a bitch. Not your average, everyday, “I should sign up for the Travelzoo top 20 discounts email” variety. It was a Superbug from the same lab that developed deer ticks, killer bees, and blue/red spiders whose bites turn nerdy New Yorkers [...]
Pumpkin Party at the Moon Tower
I love these dudes.
It’s like the all-pumpkin cast of Dazed and Confused.
Alright, alright, alright!
Fall in New York City is definitely excellent, no question. But the leaves have not changed until I am drinking a cider and waiting on a long-ass line for a brown paper bag filled with warm donuts at an orchard stand. [...]
Upstate
For those of you who don’t live in New York City, let me make one thing clear; you don’t live in New York City. You live with New York City. It’s like the most f’d up, co-dependent relationship ever. You’re madly in love with its amazing food, crazy cultural offerings, and the [...]





