City Guide: 10 Family Friendly Activities in Brooklyn, NY to Enjoy this Winter
While our family frequently enjoys attractions, museums, and performances in Manhattan, we’ve never ventured across the bridge to the borough of Brooklyn. This past month, we had the opportunity to spend the weekend exploring many cultural attractions in Brooklyn and learning about the city’s rich history.
Eights Exhibits Kids Will Love at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y.
One of the oldest- and largest- art museums in America, the Brooklyn Museum, located in the heart of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, is home to over 500,000 objects of art from around the world and spanning over 5,000 years of history. The museum originally began as the Brooklyn Apprentices’ Library in…
Nine Reasons to Love Winter at Rocking Horse Ranch in New York
This past week, we had the chance to visit one of our favorite resorts in the Northeast, Rocking Horse Ranch. Located just outside Poughkeepsie in the Hudson Valley of New York, Rocking Horse Ranch is a 500 acre resort that is home to over 120 horses (dubbed “The Best Herd in the World”), the Big…
Playing “I Spy” While Touring the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C.
Biltmore, the largest private home in America and a National Historic Landmark, was the home of George and Edith Vanderbilt and their daughter, Cornelia, in the early 20th century. A trip to the Asheville, North Carolina area in the late 1880s inspired George to have a home built so he could enjoy the beauty and…
Tidal Cove at the JW Marriott Turnberry Resort and Spa in Miami
On a recent holiday visit to see family who live in southern Florida (we’ve visited many times- see our West Palm Beach City Guide here), we were looking for a new spot to explore. My brother shared that the JW Marriott Turnberry Resort and Spa always received high praise from people in the area and…
Year in Review: Highlights of 2024
2024 was an adventure filled year for our family, filled with road trips ranging from Mont Tremblant and Québec at the end of 2023 to Montana and Banff during the summer to ending 2024 with a road trip from Miami, Florida back home to Connecticut.