At Backyard Road Trips, we can’t get enough of the line of lip and body balms from Drew’s Honeybees. We’ve written about the company and even had Drew Burnett, founder of the company, on our podcast! What I love about Drew’s Honeybees is that not only are ingredients of the finest quality, organic, and environmentally […]
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Food must be on my mind. For the past almost year I’ve been researching classic restaurants for an upcoming book. In doing so, an idea dawned on me for a new BYRT series, “My Favorite Meal,” which features my favorite dish or dishes at restaurants that I love. The first comes from von Trapp Bierhall
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Living on the South Shore for almost ten years now, one of my most memorable and reliable dining experiences has been at the Scarlet Oak Tavern in Hingham, Massachusetts. The tavern intrigued me since moving to the area, a colonial house with attached back building and barn. Even though located just off the busy Queen
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*Note, this piece was written in 2017, shortly after finding out that Benny’s would be closing. A few weeks ago, I was shocked to find out that you, old friend, were not doing well. That you were not going to make it to see the new year. I was heartbroken by this since you had
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I guess I’m a little late. The apple picking season has come and gone for 2020. Quite honestly, some places did not open this year and others had firm restrictions. No matter what though, even in late fall, most of these spots offer a fun fall excursion. With farm markets, cider, and doughnuts, these stay
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From Bourne to Orleans When Patti Page sings of “quaint little villages” and “winding roads” in her 1957 hit song, Old Cape Cod, she must have been referring to The Old King’s Highway, better known as Route 6A. Three major routes traverse the Upper Cape from the bridges to the Orleans rotary (which are then
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On a recent trip with the family to the Roger Williams Zoo, afterward, I took a much-anticipated detour to Long Live Beerworks in Providence. Its location is just off of Route 1 in a rehabilitated mill complex on Sprague Street. This brewery is well-hyped for good reason. With an ultra-cool location and top-notch beer, Long
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Boston has been my adopted home town for nineteen years. I thought I had done a pretty good job of exploring almost every nook and cranny of the city. From Maverick to Forest Hills, I knew it all! I was proven wrong when I discovered the Fort Hill Tower in the Roxbury section of Boston
With America in the most turmoil I’ve certainly seen in my 37 years, folks can’t seem to agree on much. Whether from the left or the right, or somewhere in the middle, everyone can agree on the burger. (Yes, you can include veggie burgers if you’d like.) The hamburger is the classic American meal–ground beef,
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As one of her pandemic projects, my mom has been slowly tackling the boxes of stuff to go through in the attic. (Similar to what I did with the basement.) Among the gems she found was a story I wrote at age eleven. It began with me eating chocolate chip cookies and cheez balls for
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