Where the hell is Central Jersey?
I was all set to write about a bunch of other things when I came upon a story I read that legislators from the great State of New Jersey have passed a bill to encourage tourism in the State and…
Karmel Knocking Around
Melissa: Take a hike! My top five trails in NJ!
So many hikes…so little time. New Jersey has so many hiking trails in varying lengths and degrees of difficulty. It’s hard to pick my favorites, but here are five hikes that I really enjoyed. At some point they may be…
Karmel Knocking Around wins free vacation from Sundance Vacations…NOT!
Get this! Melissa and I won FREE SEVEN-DAY VACATIONS and…AND…two tickets to a sporting event OR concert! But wait…there’s more… Melissa and I were networking at the Travel and Adventure Show at the Javits Center in New York City. We…
Lobster and pizza and kids and lipstick are not a great combination
I love lobster. And I love pizza. So why not venture to a place that puts the two together? Like Val’s Tavern, which boasts that it has been a staple in Rumson, New Jersey since 1942 and is the home…
It’s Wednesday…and we would have been better off with Prince Spaghetti?
We had been wanting to come to this place for what seems like forever. Honestly, it was based on the reviews. But considering we DO reviews…that’s what we do…you would think we wouldn’t be artificially influenced by the obvious carefully…
In search of Tripod Rock…and some good pizza
It was supposed to be a “nice” day so we decided to get in our first “hike and slice” of the new year. But what is nice in January? The weather report indicated it would be 50 degrees. That is…
Philadelphia art and, uh, fart?
In a nod to our “Hike and Slice” series, we should probably add “Art and Fart” to the repertoire. Because after a great excursion to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, we decided to venture out to find a local restaurant…
Reaching for new heights in Arizona
We had traveled to Acadia National Park in Maine in June, visited Israel’s nature reserve En Gedi in July, hit two National Parks in Wyoming – Grand Teton and Yellowstone – in September, and then ventured to Milwaukee and Chicago…
Fairy Dust and Pizza Crust Hike and Slice™
As part of our “Hike and Slice” series, we set out to stay healthy by doing a 5K (at least) by hiking through nature (rather than our usual running) and then indulging on some pizza from some of the more…
Brown and Dead…The Trail or The Pizza?
Since indoor activities are so limited in these Covid days, we layer up and suck it up and get outside to do some hiking instead of sitting in front of the idiot box (credit to my mom for that one)…