Category: USA
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Hotel Review- Las Vegas MGM Grand
I’ve been to Las Vegas a few times in my life- sometimes for vacations, more often for work- and I make it a point to try to stay in a different hotel each time I visit. Although I’ve stayed at quite a few different Vegas hotels at this point, MGM Grand remains one of my…
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A Half Day Along the Hudson River, A Budget Friendly New York City Itinerary
With New York being such a popular destination for travelers across the world, I often find myself running around the city playing tourist myself, with my friends visiting from all over. One route that proves particularly popular with visitors is what I like the call my ‘Half Day Hudson Tour’, which takes us all along…
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Fall Foliage Trip to Lake Minnewaska State Park
Minnewaska State Park Preserve is located just about a two-hour’s drive from Manhattan if the traffic’s on your side- and quite a bit longer if it’s not. Since we’d left bright and early, we thought we’d been able to dodge the worst of it when we came across a complete stand-still just about a mile…
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Apple Picking at Masker Orchards- An NYC Day Trip
Only about an hour’s drive from New York City, apple picking at Masker Orchard is a popular fall-time activity- plus it’s pet friendly! One of the things that I like about this orchard is that it doesn’t actually have to be an expensive day out. Both parking and admission are free, and visitors are free…
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Museum Spotlight- The Met Cloisters
While the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of my favorite museums in New York, I’d only managed to visit The Cloisters this past winter. Located in Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, this offshoot of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is easy enough to get to from the city via public transportation, but I…
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How to Spend a Day on the Chicago River
While Chicago is know for its windy and wild winters, its summers more than make up for the frosty seasons. I took my first trip to Chicago in August, and the warm weather had me sticking close to the Chicago River for the entire day.
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My New Favorite National Park- Capitol Reef
Capitol Reef National Park is one of the few national parks I never seem to hear about. It’s relatively close to its more famous siblings; Arches, Canyonlands, Zion, and Bryce National Parks, but despite being a part of Utah’s “Big Five” National Parks, I don’t think I’d ever heard the name before we were rolling…
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XFinity Center- Boston/Mansfield
While this venue labels itself as being a Boston music venue, it is in fact located nearly an hour outside of the city center in Mansfield, Massachusetts. This distance give the venue room to spread out. It has a generous amount of parking, though perhaps not enough for a full house. We were in one…
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Top Five Hikes at Capitol Reef National Park
I’m going to start this off by saying that in no way am I an expert hiker. In fact, I think it would be a bit of a stretch to call myself an athletic hiker. Having been born and raised at sea level, the second I start hitting an incline all bets are off and…
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What to Do In Las Vegas if You’re Not a Gambler
For someone who has been to Las Vegas on three separate occasions, I truly have no interest in gambling. The brightly lit machines are pretty and that’s about the extent of my awareness of the casino floor. There is, however, a reason that I keep returning to the city; its abundance of shopping, dining, entertainment…