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Robin Catalano

Hudson Valley (group)

Travel Writer at Freelance

Travel, f&b, conservation/preservation writer. Words in NY Times, NatGeo, T+L, AFAR, BBC, CN Traveler & many more. Lover of cookies & hard cider. Unfluencer.

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  • 3 weeks ago | nationalgeographic.com | Robin Catalano

    More than 45 million U.S. travelers took road trips for Memorial Day 2025—an increase of approximately one million from the previous year, breaking the 2005 record of 44 million people driving to their desired destination for the holiday weekend. Choosing a car-free destination is a way both to save at the pump and help save the planet.

  • 3 weeks ago | nny360.com | Robin Catalano

    In 1995, Tammee Poinan Grimes’s parents purchased a 60-foot-long tour boat to use for sightseeing cruises along the Erie Canal. The expense of shipping the boat from San Francisco to Upstate New York was prohibitive, so they came up with a different solution.

  • 3 weeks ago | nny360.com | Robin Catalano

    In 1995, Tammee Poinan Grimes’s parents purchased a 60-foot-long tour boat to use for sightseeing cruises along the Erie Canal. The expense of shipping the boat from San Francisco to Upstate New York was prohibitive, so they came up with a different solution.

  • 1 month ago | torontosun.com | Robin Catalano

    Over the course of seven weeks, the family helmed the vessel south through the Pacific Ocean, northwest across the Panama Canal and into the Caribbean Sea, then north via the Atlantic Ocean and into the Hudson River at New York City, before connecting with the Erie Canal in Albany. “You can get anywhere in the world via the Erie Canal,” says Poinan Grimes, now the captain of the same patriotically painted boat, the Colonial Belle.

  • 1 month ago | canoe.com | Robin Catalano

    More than 35 festivals, outdoor programs, lectures and performances will offer adventures and insightsAuthor of the article:Washington PostRobin CatalanoPublished May 29, 2025  •  6 minute readA view from the Colonial Belle as it travels east on the Erie Canal in Pittsford, New York, this month. The canal connects Buffalo in western New York to Albany, the capital, in the east.

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30 Dec 24

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18 Oct 24

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14 Sep 24

RT @AirMailWeekly: Ron Howard’s “Eden,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, looks at a mysterious death that took p…