by Chris Clemens Last week while driving to work, I pulled up next to a car with a familiar logo. Amidst a bunch of other decals, there was an Exploring Upstate sticker! I had made a few last year and a couple friends wanted one, but I had never seen one in the wild. I […]
by Chris Clemens New York is filled with folklore and legends. Traditions passed on through storytelling, crime sprees ending in spooky resolutions, spiritual lore with unexplained details, and infamous people with fascinating backgrounds have each become part of the common thread stitching each region of the state together. The Hudson Valley has its own collection […]
by Chris Clemens This past month in particular, there’s been a lot of discussion in my social media channels about how 2016 has been terrible. I know there have been some difficult events this year. We lived through one of the most emotionally charged Presidential elections I’ve been alive to witness. We’ve had to grieve […]
by Chris Clemens I grew up in a house that was surrounded with woods and a creek and vineyards and a seemingly unending landscape of discovery. My childhood imagination was kept plenty busy with my immediate surroundings and enough opportunities to design a world of escape that lay right off our back patio. Exploring Upstate has […]