Karmel Knocking Around on Broadway
Melissa and I both enjoy seeing shows. Our tastes are distinctly different. And she lets me know that. I like a lot of music but I am partial to country music and pop. She, on the other hand, loves the…
Karmel Knocking Around
Hike and Slice – Family Edition!
It was my **th birthday this past weekend – fine, my 50th – and my daughter Erin and her boyfriend Nick flew in from Milwaukee to spend the weekend. As usual, my kids tell me every year “we’ll do whatever…
SURPRISE!!! Your party has been cancelled! Courtesy of Casa La Femme!
That’s right, I planned a surprise 50th Birthday dinner for Melissa at one of her favorite restaurants in New York City – Casa La Femme, an Egyptian restaurant at 140 Charles Street in the West Village. I had begun planning…
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…
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…