My Suburban Escapes
Day Trippin' in Lower NY. Get Out In It.
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Well, this may be the longest autumn on record. I feel like I’ve been Falling for a year. The changing leaves don’t hold much sway over me anymore as the gorgeous days just keep coming. I have worn myself plumb out on solo trips and done some super fun group trips. I try not to…
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Pure joy for me is throwing my kayak, boots and hiking sticks in my car and hitting the open road in autumn with just the slightest suggestion of a destination in mind. You really can’t go wrong when bathed in gold and red with a cool breeze coming through the car windows and the butt…
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For our nascent nation the Catskills were the first frontier, a vast wilderness across the mighty Hudson just waiting to be explored with high peaks, deep valleys and old growth forests. For me the Catskills are a huge chunk of green seen as a blur from the car window which can be accessed off I-87…
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In 2015, I had the privilege of helping kick off a summer program for teens with the Friends of Rye Nature Center which we named Paddle Adventure Camp (PAC). It has shaped my adult summers in the manner that sleepaway camp shapes kids. I never imagined I would be doing it this long, never thought…
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I was recently asked to be a new friend’s “plus one” at a fancy soiree and by accepting discovered a whole new world. It was a dinner celebrating the work of the Palisades Parks Conservancy (PPC) and the Palisades Interstate Park Commission (PIPC) held at Ross Dock on the Hudson River, nestled beneath that sheer…
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Nature abhors a vacuum; matter rushes in to fill any gap. But we’ve had to wait awhile for the vacuum in live music created by the pandemic to fill. Fans have abhorred that empty space, but bands are finally rushing in. Live music is back, and there are many options close enough and good enough…
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Happy Mother’s Day! Time to dig out that floral dress and some pantyhose…. As this is the first we’ve been able to celebrate openly for a couple of Covid years, you may be chomping at the bit to be feted or to fete. Motherhood has been celebrated since time immemorial, from ancient Greek and Roman…
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I am averse to repetition. It’s a problem and one of my greatest faults. I can do what’s expected as long as I switch up the how and where. There’s so much to see out there that it’s hard to return repeatedly to the same place. I’m a Gemini on the cusp of Taurus, a…
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“When light is in your heart,You will find your way home.” Rumi It’s hard to admit, but I got lost hiking the Appalachian Trail one recent dreary day. It finally happened. I broke every cardinal rule, didn’t follow my own advice, and brought my hiking partner down to the lowest common denominator of friendship by…
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I’ve been hearing about the mysterious Gunks forever, but always thought they were outta my league, that only the hippest of the hip could tackle them: the rock climbers. “Let’s hit the Gunks this weekend” is not a sentence that would naturally fall from my lips. I just didn’t know what they were until I…
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