Saugerties, NY Makes Budget Traveler's Top Ten List

Saugerties, NY is a success story, plain and simple. I didn’t need to read the new issue of Budget Traveler to remind me of that. It was great to see it picked as one of the 10 coolest small towns in America. More and more I am seeing the villages and towns that are in my home zone get picked as places to go. Sometimes I need to be reminded that I travel from and return to a special place filled with interesting people.

My friend and occasional GoNOMAD contributor Richard Frisbie was mentioned in the piece as was his Hope Farm Press & Bookshop. Miss Lucy’s Kitchen and Love Bites Café also got a shout out. Tubac, AZ and Rockland, MI also made the cut.

Gridskipper, Budget Traveler, World Hum and Other Ways to Spend a Snowy Day

I got to love a snowy day because I get to float around the sites and blogs of traveling folks. I can tell when Gridskipper has posted links to my blog on their site; hits go up like a roman candle. Same for Budget Travel, World Hum, Tim Leffel and Johnny Jet, and a host of others and I will be linking some more great sites here soon. It truly is a small world we all work within. Tonight I would especially like to thank Gridskipper, such a cool site with info any traveler would use. Max and I discussed much of what we will talk about at our seminar at the NY Times Travel Show this year; you all deserve to be given a shout out on my handout. Time to put on the snow suit and dig out, the slopes of the Catskills will call soon.