South of Albany

As much as I love what we have to offer in the Capital Region, I do love a good day trip, especially to the Hudson Valley. This one, I have to give credit to my Mom because, for her birthday, she wanted to try to…

One of the hardest things in this area is figuring out where you want to go when you want to take a quick day trip. We’re so close to the Hudson Valley and the Adirondacks and they’re both full of so many great towns and…

Fellow Potterheads, I know you’ve seen the ads all over social media as I have so for my birthday this year (Dec. 18) I had to check it out. It’s the Ravenclaw curiosity in me, what can I say?

On the journey this holiday season to find as many lights as I could, my friend and I came across Lumagica. Christmas lights? Not so much but an enchanted forest to bring you to a work of light and beauty? Yes.

Something about this year put me on a mission to see as many Christmas lights as I could. Maybe it was binge-watching “Great Christmas Light Fight,” or maybe something about this year didn’t feel as magical as last year. Sure, I could’ve driven around my…

Sometimes you want an ice cream cone and sometimes you want a milkshake covered in ice cream and a ton of fixings that it’s almost the size of your head. The last time I was in NYC, it was the latter.