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There is a version of the corporate retreat that most teams know too well. You fly everyone to a city, check into a hotel, reserve a conference room on the third floor, and spend two days staring at the same kind of walls you left behind. The setting changes. The format doesn’t. The whiteboard looks…
There is a five-mile stretch of Route 9 in Westchester County where four centuries of American history are compressed into a single afternoon drive. Washington Irving wrote the nation’s first internationally famous fiction here. John D. Rockefeller built a hilltop estate with views that reach the Palisades. Jay Gould’s Gothic Revival mansion still commands 67 acres above the river. And every October, 125,000 people descend on the corridor to see 7,000 hand-carved pumpkins illuminate an 18th-century manor.
Search for where to stay in Sleepy Hollow or Tarrytown and you will find Courtyard by Marriott, Comfort Inn, Hampton Inn, and a Wyndham conference hotel. This guide introduces the alternative.
You’ve done Storm King as a day trip. Most people have. You drove an hour from the city, walked the grounds for three hours, saw maybe a third of the collection, ate a grab-and-go sandwich at the café, and drove home tired. You told friends it was incredible. You meant it. You also left knowing…
You get the call — or the letter, or the text with the photo of the acceptance packet — and everything that follows happens in a blur of pride and logistics. Your son or daughter is going to West Point. The United States Military Academy. Four years that will reshape their life. And yours. Then…
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
