I Love My GPS

I have a GPS tool in my smartphone, but using it on the 10 hour drive slurped the battery power from my phone like you wouldn’t believe. When my brother took us to Virginia Beach in his van, I got to see his GPS and see how it worked, for the first time. I have [...]

Traveling Can Be Expensive!

…especially when you forget some crucial components of your travel gear and have to buy it retail. :-p The Hubs and I had a wonderful trip out to the Finger Lakes this week. It was amazing! I’ll have loads and loads of details and photos and travel tips up and coming. This trip was my [...]

Adirondack Trail to Barneveld and Hinckley Lake

We went to see Trenton Falls, but it was closed. So we followed our noses and found adventure in other means. The West Canada Creek is majestic and ferocious! And the scenery is story-book gorgeous.

Travel Safety Tip: Update the GPS System!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me. All opinions are 100% mine. Before you go out on your next travel excursion, BE SURE to update your GPS unit, both the handheld unit and the car unit. It is very important. Summer is a high travel time, but it is also a busy time for [...]

On Ice: WW Durant & Raquette Lake Navigation Co

On the way home from our delightful trip to Tupper Lake in the Adirondacks, we made a pit stop at Raquette Lake. There’s a boat there in the lake– right in the ice!– that serves as a snowmobilers’ rest stop. The place was totally packed with red-cheeked, frosty-breathed snowmobilers. The boat, the W.W. Durant maintained [...]

Driving to the ‘Daks

We took a day trip to the Adirondacks last week. What an adventure! The weather forecast called for “relatively” precipitation-free weather… but they were wrong. I’ve been on bad roads before (I used to live in Cherry Valley, Rt. 20 area), but this was awful. Just a small amount of wet flurries, and our car [...]

San Francisco, 1906

This video is of a film taken in San Francisco in 1906, four days before the terrible earthquake that destroyed this part of the city. Apparently, no one knew exactly where the film was originally taken, but a group of historians, studying the film, discovered that this is Market Street in San Francisco, California. I [...]

Finding Auto Repair Help While Traveling

Ouch. It’s happened to us: you are far away from home, and something happens to the car. You’re in a strange town, you know absolutely no one and now you need a brake job (or, as was in our case, a totally new transmission)– what on earth do you do?? Here’s a tip: bookmark this [...]

Batten Down the Hatches

We’ve finally seen some winter weather in Upstate New York. I’ve been hearing reports of an impending Nor’easter or some such Atlantic storm chugging our way. Please drive safely! Slow down when the roads are snowy! Maybe this photo will help, lol. see more Epic Fails Many thanks to all of you who left comments [...]

Downtown Utica in December

What a difference a week can make. I took a drive to Utica, NY, last week and there was no snow (but it was cold and blustery). Today, we got snow– almost 5 inches in a very brief blitz. It has been 287 days without any snowfall until now. On my way downtown, walking on [...]

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