WHY GO: We’ve covered Pittsburgh PA as a movie set, and as a growing culinary Mecca. But this time, it’s all about History, Whiskey, and Crazy Art. We pair that with one of the coolest hotel rehabs in the city – within eagle’s eye of PNC Park. Come back to …
WHY GO: The product that made Milton Hershey a household name – chocolate – dominates everything here; at Hershey Park, in the Resorts, and on Chocolate Ave. downtown where the streetlights are shaped like Kisses. One of the most overlooked attractions in Hershey, PA is, arguably, its most important; The …
WHY GO: The iconic statue, “The Man At the Wheel” defines Gloucester MA past and present. Sporting foul weather gear, the Fisherman’s Memorial, erected in 1923, lists the thousands of Gloucester mariners lost at sea. Home port of the Andrea Gail – the fishing boat that went down with all …
On March 12, 2018, USA Today reported that a recently declassified 2015 video documented a UFO encounter in Pine Bush NY by navy pilots aboard a Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet. This was not an isolated incident. From 1981 to 1987 there were over 25,000 reports of a boomerang-shaped …
WHY GO: Until recently, Clearfield County PA, in mid-western Pennsylvania just off I-80, was believed to be nothing more than deer and elk hunting grounds. After all, it’s got the largest number of elk outside of the American West. But though it’s hard to imagine, cool things are happening here. …
WHY GO: The Woodstock Music Festival was held in Sullivan County NY. “Three days of fun and music, and nothing but fun and music.” Need we say more? Of course, yes. Boomers will recognize this area of the Catskills, also, as the former “Borscht Belt.” Summer resorts like The Concord, …
Your first view of Hudson Valley Rose Bed & Breakfast in Middletown, NY is that of a tree-lined gravel road that seems to go on and on and on. Surrounded by all the lush foliage, you might be tempted to belt out the 1960s hit TV Show theme song, “Green Acres …
WHY GO: Provincetown MA on the tip of Cape Cod is buoyant and gay in all definitions of that word. It’s beautiful, fun, spontaneous, and free-spirited. The perfect getaway for like-minded souls. Where the parched Pilgrims on the Mayflower originally landed seeking water, and afterwards a maritime and whaling center, Provincetown began to draw …
WHY GO: Small town Exeter NH, home to the venerable prep school, Phillips-Exeter, will charm you to pieces. And, it will also provide an enlightening glimpse of our Founding Father’s debate over what makes “a more perfect union” at the American Independence Museum. Visitors to Portsmouth are missing a great deal …
WHY GO: As a Colonial seaport and one of the country’s oldest Naval Shipyards, Portsmouth NH was open to many immigrants from foreign lands who lived and socialized together in an enclave picturesquely called “Puddle Dock.” The town bustled with shops and eateries. Barges plied the rivers delivering goods. It …