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People walk into a Strip District ice warehouse looking for ketchup. The name is a senator who died in 1991. The war that made Pittsburgh is upstairs. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/pouring-out-the-ketchup-at-the-heinz Pittsburgh Things to DoDowntown Pittsburgh HotelsWalk the Burgh Walking Tour Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

Baseball was not invented in Cooperstown. The National Baseball Hall of Fame opened there in 1939 on a story Doubleday never told. You go for the plaques on Main Street. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/soak-in-baseball-history-at-the-baseball Nearby hotels available in Oneonta Stay where I stayed Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

Pittsburgh still sells the Steel City. The tallest tower was built to rust. A hospital fills the floors. The walk is two hours from a white bike on Penn Avenue to Market Square. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/well-i-was-walking-in-pittsburgh Book your own Walk The Burgh tour! Other Pittsburgh Things to Do! Stay in the City! Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

A cocktail family’s castle on the Metacomet Ridge. A 1950 newspaper picnic. The lawn where they asked Eisenhower to run. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/what-makes-talcott-mountain-state-park-unique Book your stay near the tower and state park! Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

The Hall of Fame started as a New York dinner. Cleveland won the building because Alan Freed said “rock and roll” on WJW and the city would not let the museum leave. The pyramid opened nine years after the vote. The dinner still travels. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/keep-on-rockin-at-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame Book your visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Book your stay a few blocks away at the Hyatt Regency Cleveland at the Arcade Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

Two pools sit in the footprints of the Twin Towers. 2,983 names run the bronze. The plaza is free. The museum is seventy feet down. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/the-two-voids-where-the-towers-stood There are numerous options for tickets if you're interested in visiting. If you purchase through any of the links below, I receive a small commission: 9/11 Memorial & Museum Timed Ticket with Tour Options9/11 Memorial Official Guided Tour9/11 Memorial Tour with Museum and One World Entry Options Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

United 93 left Newark late. The passengers learned the other planes were weapons. Eighteen minutes from Washington, the 757 went into a Somerset County field that is still their grave. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/shanksvilles-memorial-an-unlikely-9-11-landmark Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

Every other NFL team has an owner. Green Bay has shareholders — a packing-plant club the town refused to sell, in the oldest stadium still used by the team that opened it. The rain is part of the exhibit. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/soaking-in-the-green-and-gold-a-packers Book your experience on Sports Traveler Just want to see the game? Green Bay Packers Football Game Ticket at Lambeau Field Go on a Stadium & Titletown District Segway Tour Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

Shea sold a hot dog and a cup. Citi Field sells New York on a concourse — pastrami that falls apart, sausage that holds, a julep in a souvenir cup — and prices it like a food festival. The stands worth the line, the ones to walk past, and whether the building still works when the Mets do not. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/citi-field-food-guide Contrasts of Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, & Manhattan Tour New York Mets Baseball Game at Citi Field Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

Peak weeks are when a historic house performs for a crowd. Offseason is when you can hear the guide — if the kitchen is still open and you checked the last tour time. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/the-opposite Booking.com has great deals! Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

On September 6, 1781, Benedict Arnold took Fort Trumbull in minutes and burned New London. The granite pentagon you walk is the third fort on the point. Then the site trained the Coast Guard and hunted submarines. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/walk-through-history-at-fort-trumbull-state-park Book your hotel or vacation rental through Expedia! Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

On April 8, 1814, the British burned 27 ships at this Essex landing — the largest single American shipping loss of the war. The last steamboat warehouse on the river is still the building you walk into. Inside is a wooden submarine that failed to put a hole in a flagship. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/drifting-into-the-connecticut-river-museum Book a hotel or vacation rental in the area through Expedia! Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

Most museums put the past behind glass. Mystic Seaport put a working 19th-century port on the Mystic River and left the doors unlocked. Start on the Sabino at 10:30. A flag outside a door means someone inside will talk to you. Then go aboard the Charles W. Morgan — the last wooden whaleship in the world, and the ship the first draft of the essay left out. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/history-comes-alive-at-the-mystic-seaport-museum Book your advance ticket to the Mystic Seaport Museum!I highly recommend the Hyatt Place Mystic for your stay, book through Booking.com!Prefer a vacation rental? VRBO has you covered Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

William Gillette put the deerstalker and the curved pipe on Sherlock Holmes, then spent the fortune on a fieldstone house above the Connecticut River. Helen had been dead twenty-six years. His will is why the state owns the hill. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/an-american-castle-gillette-castle-state-park Need a hotel stay? Booking.com always has great deals Prefer a vacation rental? VRBO is your one stop shop Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.

You do not get off the boat. The houses off Stony Creek are private, and the pink granite under them already left for New York — Liberty’s pedestal, Grant’s Tomb — which is why a 45-minute loop from a Branford dock is the visit. Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/the-thimble-islands-cruise-is-a-must-see-heres-why Need a hotel? Booking.com has great deals Prefer a vacation rental? VRBO has numerous options Follow Red Solo Traveler Website: https://www.redsolotraveler.com X: @RedSoloTraveler Instagram: @redsolotraveler YouTube: @redsolotraveler Conversation produced from Louis’s article.