London. Paris. Rome. Rhinebeck.

Highlights of my trip this weekend to Rhinebeck:

• Lunch at Escoffier at the Culinary Institute
• Dinner at the Beekman Arms
• Dinner at Arielle
• Shopping at Oblong Books and Hammertown
• Seeing (500) Days of Summer
• Visiting Eleanor Roosevelt's home, Val-Kill
• Visiting Samuel Morse's home, Locust Grove
• Shopping at the Rhinebeck Farmer's Market
• Visiting the Bard College campus
• Seeing the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard (Frank Gehry designed it)
• Traveling the highways and byways of the historic Hudson Valley with my buddy Patti P.