Carrie Dykes is a freelance wine and travel writer residing in the Hudson Valley region of New York. Her work appears in Wine Enthusiast, SevenFifty Daily, Lonely Planet, Chronogram, and many other publications. She loves finding treasures on forest floors and thrift stores, and vacillates between wanting to live a nomadic life of exploration and getting a bunch of chickens and alpaca and starting a one-acre farm. Follow her adventures along with her husband, son, former Brooklyn-street-cat—Marzipan, and crazy Border Collie—Chippy Cheppy