︎   JANUARY  🌉  🎰

Spent the month in the Bay Area and central coast of California; stopped over in Vegas for a few nights before heading back east.

Bay Area
🌲  Muir Woods National Monument
🦭  Point Reyes National Seashore
🍷  Balestri Family Farm

Central Coast
🛌  Madonna Inn

🏯  Hearst Castle
⛰️  Pinnacles National Park

Vegas
🛌  Circa
🏊‍♀️  Stadium Swim
🍹  Dino’s Lounge
🍴  PublicUs
🍕  Evel Pie

︎   FEBRUARY  🇵🇹

Visited Portugal for the first time. Drank copious vinho verde, ginjinha and porto tonico; ate my weight in tinned fish; was underwhelmed by pastel de nata.

Porto

🛌  Malmerendas Boutique

🍴  À Bolina
🍴  Taberna d'Avó
🍇  Caves Ferreira
🍷  A Cave Do Bon Vivant
👟  Matosinhos <> Foz

Lisbon

🍴  Damas
🍴  Tasca Baldracca
🐟  Sol e Pesca
🍸  Foxtrot
🍸  Pavilhão Chinês
🍷  Graça do Vinho
🧥  Amor Fati
🧥  Mess Vntg

︎   MARCH  🇫🇷

Traveled around southern France. Shed tears over the affordability of good wine, cheese and baked goods; experienced nothing but warm hospitality; drank my first pastis and ate my first pan bagnat.

Bordeaux

🍷  Les Trois Pinardiers
🍷  L’Officine
⛰️  Dune du Pilat

Nice

🍴  Lavomatique
🍴  Igniss
🍷  Barrique
🍷  La Part des Anges
🌵  Jardin Exotique d’Eze
🥾  Chemin de Nietzsche
🥾  Sentier du Littoral

Marseille

🛌  Boutique-Hôtel Provencia

🍴  La Boîte à Sardine
🍴  Livingston
📷  Le Panier
🔱  Notre-Dame de la Garde

Dijon

🍷  Le monde d'après
🍾  Louis Bouillot la Verriere

🩹  Hospices de Beaune
🎨  Musée des Beaux-Arts

🪨  Musée Rude

︎   APRIL  🍑 ⛺️

Went to visit my parents in northeast Georgia; came back to NY and spent time in the Catskills.

Northeast Georgia
⛰️  Brasstown Bald
🧗‍♀️  Tallulah Gorge
🤖  SamG Land
🍷  Yonah Mountain
🍷  Serenity Cellars

Catskills
🛌  Postcard Cabins
⛰️  Overlook Mountain
🚿  Kaaterskill Falls
🍴  Phoenicia Diner
🍴  Gray Willow
🍺  Subversive Malting
🛍️  Vinnie’s Farm Market

︎   MAY  🇩🇰 🇮🇸 🇸🇪

Hopped around Scandinavia. Viewed the world’s longest art gallery; experienced Syttende mai; visited the world’s oldest amusement park; ate lots of cardamom buns and smørrebrød.

Stockholm
🍴  Rosendals Trädgårdskafé
🍸  Lucy’s Flower Shop
⚓️  Vasamuseet
🚇  Tunnelbana Art
🧥  Beyond Retro

Oslo
🛌  Oslo Guldsmeden
🍴  Frognerseteren
🍺  Kniven
🍺  St. Pauli
📷  Vigeland Park + mausoleum
📷  Ekebergparken
📚  Deichman Bjørvika
🚣‍♀️  Sognsvann

Copenhagen
🛳️  OSL︎︎︎CPH Ferry
🍴  Broens
🍴  Vækst
🍷  Escobar
🎢  Bakken
🦌  Jægersborg Dyrehave

🧥  PRAG

︎   JUNE  ⛺️ 🌉

Drove to Montauk for my first solo camping trip; saw seals and deer. Traveled back to the Bay Area; got hooked on e-scooters.

Long Island
⛺️  Hither Hills Campground
🍷  Channing Daughters Winery
🍺  Kidd Squid Brewing
🍺  Long Island Farm Brewery

SF/Bay Area
🛌  White Swan Inn
🍴  Shuggie’s Trash Pie
🍺  Latin American Club
🍺  Redfield Cider Bar
🌾  Point Pinole Regional Shoreline

︎   JULY  🏔️

Flew to Denver to meet up with my parents on their RV trip. Tore off on my own for a few days to explore central-northwestern Colorado.

Denver
🛌  Urban Cowboy Denver
🍺  Zuni St Brewing
🍺  Occidental Bar
🧥  Rockmount Ranch Wear

Not Denver
🛌  Hotel Colorado
🍴  CO Ranch House
⛰️  Rocky Mountain National Park
🚿  Rifle Falls State Park
🪦  Cemeteries of Central City
🛁  Strawberry Park Hot Springs

︎   AUGUST  🌄

Revisited the Finger Lakes region of New York; saw gorgeous gorges and drank bone-dry rieslings.

Wyoming County
⛺️  Silverlaken Estate
⛰️  Letchworth State Park
🍺  Silver Lake Brewing Project

Wayne County
🛌  Isaac Shipley House
⛰️  Chimney Bluffs State Park
🧃  Rootstock Cider

Finger Lakes
🛌  Stonecat Guest House
⛰️  Watkins Glen State Park
🏊‍♀️  Robert Treman State Park
🍷  Forge Cellars
🍷  Hillick & Hobbs Estate

🍷  Scout Vineyards

🪞  Corning Museum of Glass

︎   SEPTEMBER  ⛺️

Ventured further upstate for more solo camping trips. Biked 25 miles in Harlem Valley; explored high peaks and deep canyons; spotted 480 million year-old sea fossils; enjoyed an unexpected attraction.

Taconic Region
⛺️  Copake Falls Campground
⛺️  Lake Taghkanic Campground
🚴‍♀️  Harlem Valley Rail Trail
🍴  Zinnia’s Dinette
☕️  Irving Farm
🍷  Millbrook Vineyards
🍺  Lasting Joy Brewery
🍺  Roe Jan Brewing

Adirondacks / Lake Champlain
⛺️  Ausable Point Campground
⛰️  Whiteface Mountain
🧗‍♀️  Ausable Chasm
🪸  Goodsell Ridge Preserve
🍷  Snow Farm Vineyard
🛍️  Arnold’s Grocery
🍺  Ausable Brewing
👻  House of Frankenstein

︎   OCTOBER  🏜️

Returned to Colorado to attend one of my favorite festivals; meandered around the mountains and mesas of the Western Slope (with a quick Utah detour).

👻  Telluride Horror Show
🛌  Balanced Rock Inn
🏘️  CampV
🛌  Wyman Hotel
🐑  Crooked Sky Ranch
🏜️  Colorado National Monument
🦕  Trail Through Time
⛰️  Scenic Byway 128
🚞  San Juan Skyway
🏚️  Cisco

🪨  Hole N” The Rock
🍖  Sawpit Mercantile

︎   NOVEMBER  🔔🏖️

Visited Philadelphia for the first time in fifteen years; flew south to the Florida panhandle for family gatherings.

Philadelphia
💀  Mütter Museum
🖼️  Philadelphia Art Museum
🎸  Johnny Brenda’s
📻  Thunderbird Salvage
🍸  Next of Kin
🥪  Middle Child Clubhouse
🥗  Meetinghouse
🍹  The International Bar
🦪  Jaffa Bar
🍷  Grace & Proper

Panama City Beach
☠️  Pirates Voyage
🦪  Dusty’s Oyster Bar
🏌️‍♀️  Topgolf
⛳️  Coconut Creek

︎   DECEMBER  🌤️🌴

Spent the month out west for early winter. Weathered more rainy and low-visibility drives than I would prefer; logged 1,500 miles on a CA/NV driving circuit.

Los Angeles
⛰️  Wildwood Canyon
🎞️  Vidiots
🛍️  Catnip Too
🐠  Mariscos ZaZaZa
🥃  Cha Cha Lounge
🍸  Thirsty Crow
🍗  Ye Rustic Inn
🍸  The Semi-Tropic
🍹  Tiki-Ti
🦪  Found Oyster
🛌  Gold Diggers
🦚  Hollywood Forever

Eastern Sierras
🤖  Olancha Sculpture Garden
🎱  Jake’s Saloon
🇯🇵  Manzanar
⛰️  Alabama Hills
🍺  Mountain Rambler Brewery

Desert Region
🛌  Belvada Hotel
🏚️  Rhyolite
🛁  Death Valley Hot Springs
🍕  Kit Fox Cafe
🍺  Death Valley Brewing
⛽️  Amboy
🍹  The Tiny Pony
🍺  Red Dog Saloon

🥐  Luna Bakery