Tag: Weekend Excursions from NYC.

Last weekend, we took a long weekend trip to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Our friends Moki and Ragini rented a house, and invited us and friends Rajan and Anamika to eat, drink and sit by the pool. This was our first visit to Nantucket. This post has 17 photos.

In October we went to Long Island to help celebrate Rose's birthday. We spent the afternoon wine tasting and picnicking at the Bedell Cellars Winery in North Fork, Long Island. This post has 10 photos.

We attended the Bridgehampton Polo Challenge kickoff this weekend, watching White Birch battle against Lechuza Caracas. While I'm not a big polo fan, I do enjoy the events. This post has 9 photos.

A few weeks ago we traveled up the Hudson River to visit Jessica's parents who had just returned from a month-long trip to Taiwan. This post has 17 photos.

This past weekend we attended the US Open tennis tournament in nearby Flushing Meadows (Queens), New York. This year we upgraded our seats to Ashe Stadium (nosebleed, as you can see from this photo) but did get to see Djokovich (the current… This post has 2 photos.

This past weekend we attended our friends' wedding in upstate New York. The ceremony was held in a mountain-top resort in the town of Boiceville, near Kingston and Woodstock, New York. This post has 5 photos.

This past Saturday we attended the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Liberty Island off Manhattan. I don't know much about the sport of Polo. This post has 13 photos.

Yesterday we spent the entirety of our Labor Day Holiday attending the US Open in nearby Flushing Meadows outside of Queens. Jessica is a die-hard tennis fan and has gone for years, but this was my first time attending. This post has 5 photos.

This is the final entry about our last stop during our big Hudson Valley tour about a month ago. Earlier that day we visited the Vanderbilt Mansion Historic Site, the Val-Kil Cottage and Roosevelt Homes in Hyde Park and finally the Tuthilltown… This post has 5 photos.

A few weeks ago I wrote about one of our more ambitious to Hyde Park and surroundings. In one day we toured the Vanderbilt Mansion, The Val-Kil Cottage home of Eleanor Roosevelt, the Franklin D. This post has 9 photos.

Fallingwater sits over a waterfall in the Pennsylvania woods, exactly as Wright intended when he designed it in 1936 — and standing in front of it, even after a 7.5-hour drive and a 12-hour Hindu wedding the day before, it delivers. This post has 9 photos.

A few weeks back, Jessica and I continued our series of weekend day trips outside of New York City to visit the town of Hyde Park, New York. This post has 2 photos.

Saturday we continued our series of weekend excursions outside of New York City by touring the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. This post has 20 photos.

We spent the long Memorial Day weekend in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as part of our emerging "Great Cities of the US" tour of 2011, having already visited Chicago, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Honolulu (I just made that up, we have no such plan). This post has 16 photos.