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In late May, with months of shutdowns pushing boisterous crowds to the beach, Paige and I decided on a little inland retreat to the sparsely populated Virginia town of Star Tannery. We spent a long weekend at a lovely secluded cabin, hidden away with three of our closest friends and a sizable herd of sheep in the backyard. It was a delightful vacation - we worked our way through every board game we owned and purchased enough Nerf blasters to arm an uprising, spending hours to

Continuing our newfound fascination with abandoned places, Paige and I made the trek out to the seaside preserve of Sandy Hook. Despite what we eventually discovered hidden crumbling away on the beach, Sandy Hook did not initially give any indication of being abandoned. As we crossed the bridge over to the narrow peninsula, the sky became blotted out by a parade of parachutes. Dozens of people were paragliding just off the shore, all looking like they’d desperately lost contr

To learn more about this location and other hidden gems in NYC, check out our first travel video. The dense little island of Manhattan is packed with an almost frightening array of secrets - sometimes the best hidden gems may only be a few streets apart and you’ll still completely miss them. That’s what happened when Paige and I ventured north up the west side looking for the Sisyphus Stones, bizarre waterfront rock piles that seem to ignore basic gravity (read about that adv

Paige was confident that an early 1800’s war fort stood resolutely on the sloping hills of Morningside Park. “I’ve seen it!” she proclaimed with complete certainty, as we scaled the blistering terrain of the park. Eventually we arrived at the Google Maps location landmarked as Blockhouse Number 2, only to find a quaint green pasture - one that was definitively empty. “You’re confident that what you saw was definitely a totally real and not made up fort?” I pressed. After conf

Back in September, when it was still comfortable enough to travel by rental bike, we spent a mad evening pedaling around Pittsburgh and trying to see it all during our short stay. Of course, this was also long before we had any plans for a travel blog on the horizon and thus we wasted no time on quality photography, even when we visited one of Instagram’s most photographed locations: Randyland. We parked our bikes nearby and wandered over, tapping our GPS to recalibrate, conv