Tag: adventure
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Weekend trip to Beacon
Yesterday we went on a day trip to the city of Beacon in the Hudson Valley. We love going there to visit shops, eat, drink, and walk along their Main Street. It seems every time we go, there’s a new store or restaurant. It’s 1.5 hours by train from Grand Central Terminal with trains leaving…
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John Muir was right about Yosemite
Back in grad school, I was teaching assistant for a course called History of the American Environmental Movement. Each semester, I would grade perhaps 70 to 80 essays, including a section on John Muir, an advocate of preserving nature for nature’s sake, and Gifford Pinchot, who advocated responsible conservation of resources for human use. While…
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Experiments in Extreme Weekend Travel
We just returned from a weekend getaway to Barbados, and I wanted to share impressions on what I’ll term our first experiment in “extreme weekend travel”. To fit nearly a week of travel time into one weekend, all you need are the following: two vacation days that connect to the weekend or a three-day weekend…
Hops Trains and Backpacks 