Sometimes, when picturing upstate New York, I imagine a mystical land far, far away — a place that almost isn’t even real. Perpetually second fiddle to the Big Apple, the City That Never Sleeps, the city so great they named it twice, etcetera, etcetera, you tend to just kind of forget that the state of New York has 50,000 square miles of land which are not encompassed by the five boroughs.
Read MoreOne of my long-term travel goals is to visit all 50 of these here United States of America, and I've been making steady progress over the last decade or so, twice visiting six new states in a single year (2011 and 2015). Despite the pandemic slowing things down for a couple years, things have picked back up and I continue to inch closer toward realizing this monumental task. Follow along, won’t you?
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