Category: Stories
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NYC’s AMNH: Afternoon Travel to Cuba, Ancient Peru and the Stars!
Founded in 1869, NYC’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is easily one of the greatest institutions in the world. Located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, this museum includes 45 permanent exhibition halls filled with scientific, educational, and cultural treasures as well the Hayden Planetarium and New York State’s official memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. I’ve enjoyed learning so…
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Fun Getaway to Baltimore
I’ve often written about my love for travel to so many far off destinations around the world. But, especially when time is tight, it’s also fun to travel somewhere relatively close by such as Baltimore, Maryland. My daughter and I had a great time visiting this city’s Inner Harbor area last month. Getting There: I usually like…
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Florida: Naples Botanical Garden and The Local
Robert and I had a wonderful time celebrating his birthday in Naples and Marco Island. Great travel experiences must eventually come to an end, but we were so sorry when it was finally time to check out of our beautiful accommodations at the Edgewater Beach Hotel. Naples Botanical Garden: We decided to make the most of our last few hours…
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Naples and Marco Island, FL: Farmers’ Market, Dolphin Excursion and the Marriott
After a nice breakfast at Naples’ Edgewater Beach Hotel, my husband Robert and I made the 10 minute or so drive back to Third Street for the city’s popular Farmers’ Market. As mentioned before, Naples is a very, very affluent city so on the way we traveled by one beautifully decorated luxury home after another. …
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Fun and Sun in Naples, Florida
After a great start to our Naples, Florida vacation at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, we woke up the next morning to see that the waters from the Gulf of Mexico had ebbed to reveal a series of sand bars. So before breakfast we had fun exploring those areas along the white sanded beach to find birds, as…
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Naples, FL: Romantic Paradise at the Edgewater Beach Hotel
My husband Robert’s birthday was last month, and I wanted to take him on a short vacation to celebrate this special occasion. Travel Wish List: This was December so we wanted to stay at a beautiful hotel in a warm destination that was relatively easy to travel to from the New York Capital District region. We also wished to…
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Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden
The night after I experienced the Rockefeller Tree Lighting Ceremony, I left the Lotte Palace Hotel to head over to the New York Botanical Garden or NYBG. Now celebrating its 125th anniversary, the NYBG is considered an iconic living museum with 250 acres supporting over one million plants. I’m a train buff, and I had been…
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Holidays at NYC’s Lotte Palace Hotel
On November 30th, I had a wonderful time attending NYC’s iconic Rockefeller Tree Lighting Ceremony. But, after three hours of standing in that pouring rain, it was great to rest and relax in the luxurious comfort of the Lotte Palace Hotel. The Lotte Palace Hotel has recently undergone a $140 million redesign including a $25 million makeover…
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NYC Holiday Tradition: Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting
The holiday season is well underway, and NYC loves to celebrate this amazing time of year with special events, beautiful store decorations, gift fairs, and museum exhibitions. One of the Big Apple’s most iconic holiday experiences has been the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony, and last week I was lucky to be invited to stand right under the tree…
Travel Gal Kim Swidler 