We wake up slowly to the smell of fresh coffee and the gentle sound of surf just outside the window. Slowly, we pour the elixir of life into our mugs and wander to the deck to watch the sea birds fishing and the dolphins playing in the gentle waves. I wish every morning could be this idyllic. Vacations, for many of us, didn’t happen this year. It caused (and continue to cause) a desperate need to escape to a different scene, preferably with friends. Our besties from Virginia Beach were stymied in their annual trip to Big Moose Lake in …
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Americana Vineyards
A few years ago, my lovely wife and I had the pleasure of doing the Halloween Party at Americana. We sat and chatted with a number of people, enjoyed coffee in the attached Crystal Lake Café, showed off our costumes and admired everyone else’s. In all, a delightful time. But for some reason, I never got to fully taste and appreciate their wines. That major oversight has now been corrected. Why did I take so long? Why am I asking you? …never mind. The staff are uniformly enthusiastic about working at Americana. Our server J.D. introduced each sample with not …
The New York Renaissance Faire
This is not reality – this is FANTASY, one of the greatest places for geeks and semi normal people to gather, be entertained, fed and have a generally great time. The New York Renaissance Fair is celebrating its 40’th year of knights and wenches, comedy and drama, royalty and beggars and more. Although it’s a more than a day trip from Central New York where we live, it’s well worth the weekend. It took about 4 hours to make it to our hotel in Suffern. Restaurants are everywhere. Janet had said she wanted Red Lobster and we found one about …