We’ve taken our American kids all over the world – they’ve been to six continents and dozens of countries. Yet ever since they learned the term “bucket list”, the only thing on it was a visit to New York City. Just about every kid has heard of NYC or seen it in a movie and … Read more
Planning a trip to New York on a budget sort of feels like going to the top of the Empire State Building… by scaling the side of the building. Impossibly tall, plenty of opportunities to slip and fall (and have your wallet spill cash all over that busy sidewalk). We spent a week visiting NYC … Read more
Bitter cold. Snow. Slush. Rain. Freeeeezing rain. Bone-chilling wind tunnels in midtown. New York in winter is basically every Californian’s idea of Dante’s Inferno (but frozen over). But there are are a lot of awesome reasons to visit New York in winter: a tranquil blanket of snow on Poet’s Walk in the Park, ice skating in Rockefeller … Read more