Category: Senior Travel
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House Tour at Saratoga Spring’s Yaddo on September 17th and 18th.
For the first time since 2003 and, for only the fifth time since its opening in 1926, Yaddo, the famous artist retreat located in Saratoga Springs, New York, will be open to the general public for guided tours of its Tiffany windowed Mansion and other sites on the private portion of its estate. Through the decades, Yaddo has…
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Classic Planes, Air Shows and Biplane Rides: Great Time At Nearby Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome!
With gas prices rising and long distance travel becoming less and less enjoyable for some of us, I’ve been looking for fun and unusual places that are relatively close to our Capital Region area. So when I heard about the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, with its extensive collection of nearly 70 classic planes from the 1900-1940 period, its air shows, and its exciting biplane rides over…
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Senior Travel-The Legendary Copacabana Returns!
Grub Street reports that the legendary Copacabana reopens on July 12, 2011. Originally opened in the 1940’s on Manhattan’s 60th Street, the new incarnation of this famous club will reappear on 47th Street near 8th Avenue. Grub Street says that this time there will a Latin element with Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays becoming “Latin night.” During the official opening, a…
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Treasure Hunting at NYC’s Flea Markets
Most Fridays I write a post about things to do in NYC during that week. Only about two and a half hours away from Albany, New York and one of the most popular destinations in the world, NYC can be a fun place to visit for a day or longer. There’s always a wide variety of events includng parades and festivals, but what do I…
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Cutting Travel Costs By Organizing Group Trips
Check out the interesting article that Billie Cohen of the New York Times wrote about how to make group trips more affordable and how to streamline the planning. Cohen discusses cruises as being the easiest trip of this type because so many things are provided to all the members of your group once you’re on board. Cohen also…
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Key West- A Traveler’s Paradise
Last week I was invited by the Hyatt Key West to attend a media trip to Key West, Florida in order to experience that area’s Cuban Cultural Exposition. An island located at the most southern part of the continental United States, Key West is only 90 miles away from Cuba, and, because of this proximity, it’s…
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Senior Travel: A Classic Car Lover’s Dream-Ferrari Show at the Breakers
While I was in Florida a couple of weekends ago, Robert and I took a drive to the Breakers, a beautiful resort located in Palm Beach. We figured we’d just stop to take a look around and have tea, but we were fortunate to stumble upon a terrific display of classic Ferraris. Here are some pictures.
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Senior Travel: Where Have All The NY Delis Gone? To Florida.
I know that it sounds unimaginable right now, but two weekends ago I was actually able to escape our upstate NY area. My husband, Robert, and I traveled via Southwest Airlines to visit my mother-in-law, Bea, who lives in Boynton Beach, Florida. As you can imagine in a world of supply and demand, the plane tickets were pretty expensive. The crazy…
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New York Public Library to Keep Some of Al Hirschfeld’s Possessions
For so long, I loved looking at Al Hirschfeld’s famous celebrity caricatures. It was always so much fun counting how many times he’d hide his daughter’s name, Nina, in a famous person’s hair or clothes. Many, many years ago, I even got up the nerve to call his agent, Margo Feiden, to see how much it would cost for…
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Enjoyable Trip To Ithaca, NY
A couple of weeks ago, Robert, Alex, Sarah and I traveled to Ithaca, NY to visit my stepson, Eric, a student at Cornell University. While there, we stayed at La Tourelle. About three miles away from the campus, we definitely needed our car to travel around. But the accommodations were luxurious, and Robert and I…
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Travel Gal Kim Swidler 