Travels With Stacey

I have now included a new event calendar for this website. It will feature places I am travelling to or want to travel to. Please check out what interests me, and we can meet at one of these upcoming events!

Being in the presence of greenery, especially flowers has a measurable effect on people. I, for one, enjoy looking for and looking at flowers of all kinds. When I was a kid, there was only one type of daffodil. Slowly, a new variety arrived. Then…

I have a guideline when I start to plan a road trip: two hours per day.  If it is just a day trip, then the farthest I want to travel is two hours.  This gives us plenty of time to drive there, explore what is…

Along the Hudson River are so many great places to explore and learn.  We were able to briefly touch this region on our return home from New York City.  Like so many mansions in this area, it was built to be far enough away from…

I am good at planning trips, and I have experience in mapping, routing and calculating everything involved in exploring the part of the world that we live in.  On my travel itinerary, I have the distance between each location, with the time to drive there,…

We had left New York City and were on our slow return home. Travelling north roughly along the Hudson River toward our hotel room, we would make our final stop of the day at Croton Gorge Park. The sun was starting to set, and the…

We arrived early—always the best plan to wait a bit instead of feeling rushed.  This was our first stop of the day for our return home from our “Hey, let’s visit New York City” trip.  Before going on a trip, I do a lot of…

So what do you do when you become incredibly successful, influential, and upper-class? You built a BIG house. During the Gilded Age, there were many big homes built.  Some of them are now heritage museums.  Staatsburgh was donated to the state in honour of the…

Charlene and I have been to many former homes that have now been converted into museums and attractions.  These destinations range from the ultra-rich to the common folk of the era.  All of these places have their own particular charm and appeal. But of all…

It was warm for a December morning, but it was still December and being high up on a bridge that spans a large river, who were we kidding – it was freezing! Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park was our first stop of the…