The draw for this Hike and Slice™ was getting to Kinchley’s Tavern in Ramsey so we looked and found that Ramapo Reservation – more formally known as Ramapo Valley County Reservation – was but a 10-minute drive down Route 17.…
Ever since Melissa and I began writing and posting on Karmel Knocking Around, friends and relatives have asked us what our favorite place is that we have visited. And we have visited some really great places over the last few…
Sometimes you just like to reminisce, and think about times that were so much easier when you had no responsibilities, no worries, and life was just about going to school, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and summer vacations with your…
ICE CREAM MAN! ICE CREAM MAN! Remember when you would get so excited hearing that music from off in the distance? You couldn’t hear your mother screaming at the top of her lungs for you to get your ass home…but…
We’re always looking for a great hike and we love to find trails that have moving water. What is it about the moving water that is so enticing? We had been to the Dingmans Ferry area before having gone to…
We do history here…We don’t glorify it; we don’t propagandize it and we certainly don’t trivialize it. History is not always glamorous. It can be messy, ugly, and brutal. But we choose to remember history and not hide it, lest…
Last year we spent Father’s Day in Acadia National Park where we hiked and I got to eat a lot of lobster. This year we decided to take a ride…a ride to Cuyahoga Valley National Park for…a ride…and no lobster.…
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,…
The thought of cross country road trips always made me cringe. Being in the car for hours at a time, driving through a place you’re not familiar with. What if the car breaks down? What if we run out of…
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…