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🚿 Cold Showers, Boiled Hashbrowns, and a Drunken Stone Circle – Wildwood State Park Day 2 (and 3)
It has become abundantly clear that I have forgotten too many things on this camping trip and that I will need to head into town for additional supplies. I end up taking a bad shower, breaking and losing pencils, sleeping poorly and loving every minute of it. Sunday June 1st, 2025 Good morning. Check out… Continue reading
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🐿️ Falling Squirrels and Passing Curses – Wildwood State Park Day 1
I have been planning to take a three-day camping trip on Long Island for months and the day has finally come. Can I haul my gear on busses and trains to make it to the park? Have I forgotten anything? What’s the beach there like? Are the negative reviews about loud parties accurate? Today we… Continue reading
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🐛 Stamp & Stroll – Jamaica Bay
Friday April 25th, 2025 Postcards! This one is off to China. This one is going to my pal Tony. I’m using big stickers on the back of postcards. And sometimes small writing. I am also using my Tony postcards as a way to practice drawing. This postcard is going to Mike in Lincoln, Nebraska. It… Continue reading
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🏴☠️ From Postcards to Penzance! – A Week of NYC Adventures
Wednesday April 16th, 2025 If you’ve ever spent significant time in Nebraska, you’ll understand the delight or horror of this attempt at making a postcard. My wife brought back food wrappers from Nebraska so that we could make a postcard with it. This one went to my pal Tony in Michigan. The Dutch oven is… Continue reading
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👹 My Anxiety, My Bread, and My NYC Weekend
Saturday April 12th, 2025 Good morning from Queens. My wife is still out of town visiting family and I have the city to myself. Time to be a ruckus! First stop: Van Cortlandt House Museum for the guided tour. Get to Manhattan and take the 1 train uptown to the Van Cortlandt Park stop. It’s… Continue reading
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🍔 Museum Mischief and Culinary Curiosity: Solo Shenanigans in the City
Sunday April 6th, 2025 Mi esposa is still out of town, so let’s sneak out and be naughty. We’ll take a historic tour of the Fraunces Tavern Museum. 😈 Delightfully devilish, Seymour. I won’t spoil the tour, but there are two highlights at this museum. During the revolutionary war both the U.S. and England were… Continue reading
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👑 Rainy Day History: An Unexpected Private Tour of King Manor
Monday March 31st, 2025 Today I sent a postcard to Germany via postcrossing.com I shared the story of yesterday’s visit to the Voelker Orth Museum. Thursday April 3rd, 2025 The tick-key that I ordered on eBay has arrived! I have a camping trip planned at the end of May and I want to be prepared… Continue reading
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🪙 They Found Riches in The Walls – Voelker Orth Museum
Friday March 28th, 2025 A postcard to a former co-worker in Austin, Texas. I told this former co-worker about the Texan I recently met on a Long Island train. Remus in a box. Saturday March 29th, 2025 Today my partner Lauri is leaving to visit family out of state and I will have the place… Continue reading
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🏕️ Long Island Camping Prep: A Three-Hour Tour (or Four, or Five, or Six)
Sunday March 23rd, 2025 At the end of May I have a campsite booked out on Long Island. I have never taken the Long Island trains or busses, so I don’t know how they operate. Do they take tap to pay like the NYC busses and trains? Is it a flat fee to get on,… Continue reading
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🎂 When Dump Cake and Discord Collide
Thursday January 30th, 2025 Tony bought a cotton candy machine at Target! Neat! Friday January 31st, 2025 Tonight is the big game. The Detroit Pistons vs the Dallas Mavericks. Giant foam finger prepared. LET THE GAME COMMENCE! It’s always fun to go to a live game, but I must tell you a story from this… Continue reading
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🪨 The Painted Rock Chronicles: Museums, Munchies, and More!
Friday January 24th, 2025 I am currently in the middle of my friendly visit to Michigan and one of our plans is to make some Bob Ross paintings. Acrylic paints have been acquired. In this picture, though, we are attempting a side quest. Our goal is to find rocks, paint them and then hide them… Continue reading
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🎤From Rakugo to Rigoletto: Wintertime Fun
Friday January 3rd, 2025 I continue to enjoy sending postcards made of “stuff” to my pal Tony in Michigan. Today’s postcard is a banana sweet’s box and the conversation on the back of the card is about my upcoming trip to visit Tony. Saturday January 4th, 2025 Today we went to the romantic musical comedy… Continue reading
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🧱 Derek DelGaudio’s In and of Itself & American Dream Mall
Monday November 18th, 2024 We went into Manhattan for breakfast and I spilled coffee on my shirt. But then I had an idea! What if Lauri had a moustache? And what if I ordered a Wagyu burger with Truffle fries? Just kidding. The reason I’m pointing at this light a few pictures back is because… Continue reading
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🌉 Paterson Great Falls NHP
Sunday November 17th, 2024 The plan today is to head over to New Jersey to get a national park passport stamp at Paterson Great Falls and to also to take a walking tour that is hosted by a park ranger. Getting the stamp for my passport book is the goal, but it feels more meaningful… Continue reading
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🔦 Fort Tompkins – The Difficult To Schedule Tour
Tuesday November 5th, 2024 Last night a took a picture of these candy covered stroopwafels and shared it with a friend in The Netherlands. He was not impressed. Today I sent a postcard to Czechia. Or The Czech Republic. I know the name of the country changed, but I still see most folks refer to… Continue reading
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