Category: Historical Travel

• NYC: So Much to Do in Historic Bowling Green Area

  

  A month ago, my husband Robert and I traveled to Manhattan in order to go through the final steps needed to obtain Global Entry status.  In order to complete this process  which hopefully moves you faster through T.S.A. lines and U.S. Customs, you have to go for a final interview. The historic Alexander Hamilton U.S.…

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  November 17, 2014

  Foodie, General, Historical Travel, Stories

• Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria Believed Found!

  Blumenfeld Associates Inc. reports that Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria may have finally been discovered. This is what they say:   More than five centuries after Christopher Columbus’ flagship, the Santa Maria, was wrecked in the Caribbean, archaeological investigators now believe they have finally discovered the vessel’s long-lost remains off the north coast of Haiti. It’s likely to…

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  May 13, 2014

  General, Historical Travel, Senior Travel

• Heritage-Seeking Travel

    For sometime now, I’ve been interested in taking my family to Romania, my grandfather’s country before he and his parents left to settle down in our Capital District area. But how to start  to figure out where to specifically go? Check out Caren Osten Gerszberg’s interesting article on travel designed to learn more about…

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  December 3, 2013

  General, heritage travel, Historical Travel, Senior Travel, Stories, Tips

• Family Travel: Mom & Daughter Trip to Toronto

  

    My daughter Sarah is going away to college this fall, and I wanted to take one last ” just the girls” trip with her before she fully started her own individual life adventures away from home. But where to go? Because of time constraints, we wanted to travel some place that was relatively close…

  kimsswidler

  August 14, 2013

  boomer travel, Canada travel, Family event, Family Travel, Fashion and Travel, Foodie Finds, General, Historical Travel, Mother-daughter travel, Stories, Toronto travel, Travel dining

• FDR Presidential Library Reopened and New Exhibition

  Check out Edward Rothstein’s  great article about the $35 million renovation of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York. Mr. Rothstein writes that the effect is overwhelming because its new permanent exhibition so steadily recounts the history of this remarkable historical figure. Click here for the whole story. Don’t want to…

  kimsswidler

  July 17, 2013

  Dutchess County Travel, FDR presidential library, Historical Travel, I Love New York, New York, Senior Travel, Stories

• Meeting Moonwalker Charles Duke

  Last month Robert and I traveled to NYC to meet legendary astronaut Charles Duke. As the lunar     module pilot for Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the   tenth and youngest person to walk on the Moon. A retired  US Air Force brigadier general, Duke visited the 108 year-old Explorers Club to be   interviewed by…

  kimsswidler

  February 11, 2013

  astronaut, charles duke, Explorers club, General, Historical Travel, Senior Travel, Stories

• US Marines vs Roman Centurians-who do you think would win?

  Ever wonder how our troops would fare if they traveled back in time to fight Rome’s Centurions? Click here to check out the interesting article that I came across in Popular Mechanic.com. Allison Sheppard writes that James Erwin, a writer of software manuals, took a break from his job to speculate as to whether a…

  kimsswidler

  July 9, 2012

  Historical Travel, Military history, Roman history, Senior Travel, Stories, time travel

• Boston: Revolutionary War Reenactment on Bunker Hill

  On June 17th, Robert and I traveled to Boston to meet up with some friends. While there, we walked a part of that historic city’s Freedom Trail, a 2.5-mile, brick-lined route that leads you to 16 significant sites concerning the the story of the American Revolution as it began in Boston. The Freedom Trail Foundation…

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  July 4, 2012

  Boston Travel, General, Historical Travel, Stories

• Amazing Dead Sea Scrolls At NYC’s Discovery Time Square

  Scroll Jar A couple of weeks ago, a friend and I were invited by the  Discovery Times Square in Manhattan to visit the world premiere of their traveling exhibit, “Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Times.” Called the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times, the Dead Sea Scrolls are 2,000 year old biblical…

  kimsswidler

  February 5, 2012

  dead sea scrolls, discovery times square, General, Historical Travel, I Love New York, New York, New York City, Stories

• Sailing aboard the Half Moon

    On our way aboard the Half Moon-photo by TU/Will Waldron   If you’ve read enough of my posts, you probably know by now that I have a great interest in sea exploration and that, wherever I’ve traveled, my experiences have usually been fueled by one major factor- I love to learn. I’ve had quite…

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  November 7, 2011

  General, Historical Travel, Hudson River, Hudson Valley Region, I Love New York, New York Travel, Senior Travel, Stories