Ever wondered what it would be like to spend an entire day in Syracuse working your way through the menus of every tea shop you could find? Me too! And, so had my good friend Andrew Brady. We recently spent a day in the Salt City figuring out as much of the tea scene that […]
You’ve likely seen the Remington Arms plant in Ilion from the New York State Thruway. It’s on the south side of the highway, just west of the exit you’d use for Cooperstown. Ilion appears from a traveling distance like many Mohawk Valley towns. You’ll recognize a large industrial plant surrounded by residential streets, which in […]
Upstate New York is forever home to a long list of celebrated poets and authors. You most likely know that Elmira is the final resting place of Mark Twain. You might even know Rod Serling of Twilight Zone is buried near Cayuga Lake. But, have you ever actually been to visit the graves of those […]
The majority of my exploration is in Upstate New York, and, of course, Exploring Upstate is intended to help you discover your next adventure here. But, occasionally I travel beyond the borders of the Empire State to see how the rest of the country lives. Most recently, I spent some time visiting Detroit, Michigan. When […]
The Northeast Classic Car Museum in Norwich, New York features almost 200 vehicles spread out over an unbelievable 89,000 square feet of space. The small Central New York town in Chenango County has been home to the museum since it opened in 1997. For my visit-a-different-Upstate-New-York-museum-every-month-in-2018 project, I made the 2 1/2 hour drive from […]