Mount Royal. The center of Montreal, and a bit like Central Park once you start wandering the paths. A lot of people make the mistake of walking all the way from the bottom, but the trick is to park up near the Smith House, in the Mount Royal Parking Lot (duh), and save your walking/hiking …
Whiteface Mountain, home of skiing in the 1980 Winter Olympics, and the redone Veterans Memorial Highway. The mountaintop is the fifth highest in New York, and the long winding 5-mile highway offers scenic stops all the way up, as it covers 2,300 feet vertically. Once at the top of the road you have to hike …
The Lake Placid Olympic Center is at the heart of Lake Placid NY, and is one of the more historic sites in Team USA lore. The building is home to the ice rink from the Miracle on Ice when the US Men’s Hockey Team defeated the Soviets in one of the greatest upsets in sports history. …
The Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex, located at Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid NY, was the home for a large part of the 1980 Winter Olympics. Lake Placid was the only bid for the Olympic games, and from the top of the Olympic Sports Complex (OSC) you can see all the sites for the …
I quickly discovered when looking for hotels on this trip was that Country Inn & Suites, my hotel of choice, didn’t have locations in the Northeast…so I turned to Google to help find a hotel and discovered a Best Western in the area I was heading towards. This was how I ended up at my …
Cooperstown, NY. The home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. A quaint little town, with a trolley system, and free parking lots dotted around the city…and if you’re lucky a metered spot in town, right in front of the Halls gates. The Baseball Hall of Fame is a great place to visit, whether you are …
One of the more popular posts from my trips is the cost of it, as it allows people to see what a similar vacation would cost them, should they take it. San Diego was the first trip that I went by plane, so the prices are more volatile, and I’ll say it not based on what …
Before I went to San Diego everyone told me that I would HAVE to visit the Hotel del Coronado. I marked it down, but had no plans of visiting it, until I ran out of things to do on the last day there. What a waste of time. Sure, the Hotel is famous, having been …
Part 1 focused on the animals, but now I’ll turn to the attractions and “Safari” part of the Safari Park. Park in the lot and walk through their long paths, but when you get to the African Plains you finally get the opportunity to hop on a safari car and head up to the animals…almost. …
The San Diego Zoo Safari Park, located 30+ minutes away from the zoo itself, is less of a “safari park” feel, but more of a “Bronx Zoo” feel, with a lot of walking to be done. While the Zoo had a large variety of animals, the safari park features a large footprint, with less animals, …
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