Archive for 'Travels' Category

Kykuit : : Rockefeller Estate Tour

This past Saturday, while looking for something interesting and different to do,  Dino and I toured Kykuit Estate in Sleepy Hollow, New York.  As we started the drive the heavy clouds started rolling in and by the time we arrived we were in the midst of a relentless, soaking rain.  Lucky for us, just as [...]

Should we move to St. John?

This question has been coming up a lot in our household lately.  Usually it’s a fleeting thought that goes as quickly as it comes.  But more often, it’s becoming an in-depth discussion with multiple perspectives, pros vs. cons and major reality checks.
Here’s the thing:  We’re young.  Dino is currently unemployed.  We have no children, and [...]

Sunday in Pastels

Sunday and I have an on-again/off-again kind of relationship.  For a long time, Sundays have not been comfortable on me.  It’s hard for me to attribute the reason to just one thing, because it changes from year to year, and from place to place.  Often, Sunday leave me feeling melancholy and forlorn.  Though on the [...]

Block Island, 2009

Now that we’ve been back from our little mini-vacation for a couple of weeks Block Island seems like a million miles away.  While we were there I don’t think I was fully accepting the R&R that it was intended to be, so it might seem like I didn’t really have a good time.  But in [...]