Timeless

If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you know that I adore history. Historical artifacts, historical stories, genealogy, everything! In so many of our exploits seeing so many wonderful old articles from the past, I always walk away awed. HOW can such old, antiquated objects still exist or even still operate after [...]

Watch This!

Well, the smartphone has taken over the world. OK OK, maybe I am exaggerating. A LITTLE. But it seems that the smartphones have replaced the GPS, the digital voice recorder (remember those?), the folded up mass of paper maps (I don’t miss those), and the wristwatch. I actually love a fine wristwatch, but I admit– [...]

Sunglasses at Night

I did it! I got a pair of cheap eyeglasses from the online glasses manufacturer, Zenni Optical. They are a really nice pair of glasses! After wearing metal frames for years, I opted for a festive ruby red plastic frame. It makes me look like a geek, but I like the glasses. They are very, [...]

Insurance Leaves Much to Be Desired

Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the insurance coverage. But for some areas, the coverage in New York State is woefully, woefully lacking. Just this week I went to my eyeglasses store. The frames I purchased six months ago (for a whopping $250!) have deteriorated. The bronze color coating is flaking off, the metal is [...]

NewYorkTraveler.net Gets a New Logo!

After a year’s hiatus while we gutted and renovated our 1855 home in Upstate New York, the Mecomber team is back on the trail! My itinerary is a bit scattered this season, but it’ll be fun. I’m going to focus on a few places that have been getting media attention lately– places that may not [...]

Home Away From Home

The kids and I have been watching some outstanding movie and documentaries lately. In particular, we have been impressed with Travel the Road, a television series that ran on TBN and is available as DVDs now. It follows two, and then three, young men who decide to sell everything they have in the States, and [...]

Making Your Traveling Hobby Work For You

I will soon see my fifth anniversary as a travel blogger, this July! I just can’t believe it. Has it truly been that long? We started blogging about our travels in July 2006. Before then, we’d visited so many enjoyable places that I longed for a way to journalize them. I started up a little [...]

Super Deals on Glasses

We’re gearing up for a new travel season! We are all pretty excited since last year was so sparse. But I have no plans to do any major renovations this year (Lord willing). So we have hopes of being out and about frequently this year. I’m trying very hard to get all the necessaries done [...]

Before You Go Anywhere…

…see Billy! He’s so smart! I’m talking about Billy’s Savings Club. Billy is the bow-tied, bespectacled mascot of Billy.com. It’s a really cool site. I follow Billy on Twitter so that I can discover deals and excellent tips. Billy.com is a resource website. They specialize in a few certain things, or just about everywhere). But [...]

Get Good Rates

Got a business? It’s important to get a comparable business insurance quote, to obtain the right coverage to ensure that you are fully protected. Moreover, you don’t want to pay more money than you need to, do you? And who has tme to go chasing down insurance agents anymore, going over the numbers and coverage [...]

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