December 30, 2025
If you’re driving Route 1 through Rockport and suddenly spot black-and-white cows grazing near the road, you’ve arrived at Aldermere Farm. This historic saltwater farm is home to Maine’s most beloved Belted Galloway cattle, often called “Oreo cows” for their distinctive white bands. Owned and preserved by the Coastal Mountains Land Trust, Aldermere Farm is […]
December 26, 2025
Heading South from Miami on Route 1 to the Florida Keys, the first place to party hard is at mile marker 104 in Key Largo at Jimmy Johnson’s Big Chill. Jimmy is the former coach of the Dallas Cowboys (where he won two Super Bowls), the Miami Dolphins and the University of Miami football […]
December 23, 2025
There has been a bar at the address of Two Friends since before the Great Key West Fire of 1886. This historic Key West icon has been a bordello, saloon, a location for treasure hauls, hurricanes and thousands of unforgettable nights. Don’t forget Key West’s rough and tumble roots were built on the […]
December 23, 2025
Route 1 cuts through Stock Island between mile markers 4 to 6, just over the Cow Key Channel. This community known for the working class from its days as a freighter port with stock for the liveries, to today’s bustling docks for the shrimp and fishing boats and to the live aboard marinas. […]
December 19, 2025
It’s the best winter wonderland Florida style right off Route 1 and a must see for the whole family. The Hollywood Hard Rock Hotel is debuting what will surely become an annual holiday tradition in South Florida. Hard Rock your world in about a 3/4 mile journey through two million LED lights across […]
December 18, 2025
The opening scene of the 1961 film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” based on Truman Capote’s play caught the imagination of moviegoers throughout the world. The iconic moment is when Holley Golightly played by Audrey Hepburn eats a pastry while gazing at a Tiffany’s window. Audrey Hepburn was a fan of arabica coffee and overnight- […]
December 16, 2025
Located on 11th Avenue and West 46th street, Patrick Henry Carley opened the Landmark Tavern, an Irish waterfront saloon in Hell’s Kitchen in 1868. New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen got its name from its notoriously violent and poverty stricken past in the late eighteen hundreds. Carley and his wife originally designed the bar […]
December 13, 2025
The Minetta Tavern is a Greenwich Village institution frequented by its famous literary clientele, layabouts, hanger-ons, various writers, poets and pugilists. It opened in 1937 at 113 MacDougal street, taking its name from Minetta Brook, a small stream that once ran from around 23rd Street down to the Hudson River though what is now […]
December 10, 2025
It’s not clear who the original inventor of the Eggs Benedict was, but the two main stories point to two locations just off Route 1 in Manhattan, NY. These two locations were the Delmonico’s Restaurant, located at 56 Beaver St, New York, NY 10004, and the Waldorf Hotel, originally located at Fifth Avenue and 33rd […]
December 10, 2025
Pino’s after over 120 year’s is a true old school neighborhood institution, with its hand-lettered signs, nineteenth century fixtures, it feels like a little piece of old New York. Located in Soho, it’s centered in a vibrant community of Italian immigrants who settled in this neighborhood a hundred years ago. Raised on a […]
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