Never forget to appreciate historic places. It's like time traveling in real time. Our latest favorite is Pete's Tavern established in 1864, once known as The Portman Hotel, and later Healys.  O'Henry (William Sydney Porter) who lived down the street as well as wrote the "Gift Of The Magi" in the second booth of this beautifully maintained establishment during the 1900's mentioned it in "The Lost Blend".... and you also get the opportunity to see the dummy refrigerator door hinges that are still intact from the "Noble Experiment", prohibition days. There's so much more that can only be appreciated in person. We loved it and plan to return again. Monica Saliceti.

Tips on saving your future adventures

Today is good day to write down a list of all the places you'd like to visit. Work with a spacious calendar, a recipe book, flash cards inside a recipe case, use an old empty address book and call it the adventure book . Any way you choose to collect your upcoming adventures is acceptable and fun to do. The best part is, once you've reached your pirate destination , you can also use the added extra space to jot down what you loved or disliked most about each trip. Hope this tip helps you as you choose your road trips. It always helps me to also contain an address and maybe an asterisk with an info word or phrase describing what highlighted your desire to visit such place. It's always fun to start with local places you've never been to, probably never heard of, but has something that amazingly interests yyou. Try to start out with suggested locations through friends and then after you've researched enough information, you can look up further added places of interests related to or opposite of that location. If you have friends who already share your love of historic places to see for example .... they can tell you what they enjoyed most about their trip and you can Google search everything you need to know. As you read up, you'll discover names, places, historic homes, burial locations, statues, museums, and more.

In my next blog, I'll be discussing my last trip, what I set out to see, what I discovered,  and more. Stay tuned for more pirate like adventures! 🤘 Monica Saliceti