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My birthday is in about two weeks (won't give the exact date just to prove that I'm not that thirsty for positive attention) and in my usual typical self I have no idea what I want and my wife wants to start planning soon.
I'm not a big presents guy, so I typically like to do a small travel jaunt to celebrate. I'm turning a non-milestone age and since my wife is turning 40 in October, we already have a nice three day trip to Maine planned for her birthday, so I'd rather keep it small for this one.
Anywho, I respect and appreciate reading the travel suggestions of the Boneyard to assist me out.
Here are the options in no particular order:
A) Baltimore
~ H. A.
I'm not a big presents guy, so I typically like to do a small travel jaunt to celebrate. I'm turning a non-milestone age and since my wife is turning 40 in October, we already have a nice three day trip to Maine planned for her birthday, so I'd rather keep it small for this one.
Anywho, I respect and appreciate reading the travel suggestions of the Boneyard to assist me out.
Here are the options in no particular order:
A) Baltimore
- Drive down early one day to Baltimore and spend one night at the Marriott Waterfront, a hotel I've stayed in before and loved
- Early dinner/drinks/raw bar at Thames Street Oyster House followed by
- 7 PM game to see the Yankees play at Camden Yards (never been there before and my wife has become a Yankees fan)
- Drive back late the day after the game
- On the same night that the Hudson Valley Renegades play (the A affiliate of the Yankees) spend one night in Beacon, at a nicer hotel that I can book on hotels.com (we have a one-night coupon worth $180). We've stayed at the Roundhouse a few times before when we've had these coupons, but they no longer book through hotels.com
- Afternoon walk in the Dia:Beacon
- Evening game to watch the Renegades
- Spend the rest of the time just ambling around the Beacon area, one of my more favorite towns about an hour away
- We're seeing Beach House in New Haven just a few days after my birthday. To enhance this trip and make it partially to celebrate my birthday, we would:
- Book a night at the Yale Graduate. I loved my experience at the UConn Graduate so much, it would be fun to stay at New Haven's (plus we watched an episode of a Discovery+ series about the Graduate Hotel and there was an episode about the New Haven location
- Just enjoy the city: pizza, drinks, seafood, whatever
- Somewhere within a three hour drive from Norwalk, CT (the only exception is Baltimore)
- One night at a hotel
- I like food, love seafood and I'm not really a meat eater
- I like wine or a good cocktail, but I'm not a big drinker
- I'm cool with the outdoors, but the only Yeti I own is a tumbler
- I'm more of a morning person, so nothing would involve me heading back to the hotel any later than 10 or 11 PM
- I hate casinos
~ H. A.