Paterson, New Jersey is not exactly a place you would expect to draw a whole bunch of tourists, visitors, curiosity seekers. Driving through the city gives a pretty good glimpse into why things have gotten a bit out of hand,…
OK…well…we did have SOME bags. But there was not going to be ANY haggling. We have been trying to rid ourselves of “stuff.” Melissa is a real minimalist and I, although a past collector of different kinds of “stuff,” I…
Melissa found a quaint, eclectic town to visit – Beacon, New York – not far from home. So after spending a wonderful day and a half touring the town dubbed “Heaven on the Hudson,” we decided to trek down to…
After all of the Broadway shows we had been to, Melissa had mentioned that she wanted to get back to seeing local productions at the smaller venues. I had seen Steve Guttenberg on WPIX one morning talking about his play…
It’s May, and after a long stretch of rain, the weather was perfect – perfect for a hike and slice, and we decided to go where people hiked a very long time ago. New Jersey has a number of places…
Any great pizza lover will revel in exploring and finding great new pizza experiences. Most native New Yorkers will tell you that it is difficult to find, forget about great, but just simply good pizza outside of the New York-New…
What do you do when your plans call for going to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens to see the cherry blossoms in bloom, and a horrible storm system pushes through the area and dumps multiple inches of rain? The weather was…
It’s amazing that it took me so long to get to Wrigley Field. So long that it had to be a bucket list item. Thankfully Melissa wanted to see the ivy-covered walls as well, and so we had reason to…