life and travels in Upstate New York
I don’t love New York for it’s politicians, it’s taxes, it’s bureaucracy, it’s empirical attitude and policies.
This is why I love NY.
Beautiful. No hotels in las vegas for me– give me the forests and the beautiful babbling brooks! Ahhhhhhh
Thanks, Adirondack Base Camp, for finding this lovely video.
This is weird! Just this morning, my kids and I were discussing poisonous snakes for a school lesson. We were a little non-chalant about the section on the rattlesnake. My daughter said, “Oh, there are no rattlesnakes in New York!” Imagine my utter surprise when I browsed Adirondack Base Camp and his enthralling narrative of […]
We’ve been by it countless times. Every time we zip by it, we grab a fleeting glimpse and wonder aloud to each other what is etched on it, what is it’s significance, and why it is there. Today I finally got to get up very close and snap a photo of the words written on […]
Today’s Photo Hunt involves candy. It took me a long time to think of something. We don’t eat much candy and I don’t regularly visit candy stores after having six teeth removed! (I had a vicious sweet tooth as a kid).
However, last time we were out, galavanting around Barneveld, NY, up in the lower portion […]
It’s been so busy here for us, with spring plantings and the kids’ school work that we haven’t had any time to really go anywhere. An appointment in a distant town might take us to a little exploration, but we really have no time for a lengthy exploit.
Some of this blog’s readers have expressed curiosity […]
Today’s Photo Hunters scavenger hunt is Unique or Funny Signs. The first thing I thought of was an old sign I remember seeing when I used to drive to work. I had to drive through some very old “shanty town” kinds of hamlets. One little area had a “convenience” store (this was before they were […]
Hat tip Adirondack Base Camp for showing off a (new to me) website that showcases everything Adirondack. It’s called the Adirondack Trailhead. The websites are amazing! This is a simple portal for everything out there relating to the Adirondacks. I’m impressed with the Flickr slideshow (scroll down). Some of the photos are absolutely stunning, like […]
In autumn of 2007, after a trip to the Baron von Steuben Memorial Site in Remsen, we took a late-afternoon drive through the Adirondacks. I scooted up Route 28 to White Lake.
It is absolutely beautiful here. We couldn’t get very close to the lake. “Private Property” signs screamed at us from all directions. Aw! Well, […]
This is another post in a continuing series about our trips to the Adirondacks.
In autumn of 2007, we drove up to the foothills of the Adirondacks, north of Utica. We wanted to visit and pay respects to Baron Frederich Wilhelm Augustus Steuben, aka Baron von Steuben, buried on Starr Hill Road in Remsen, NY. He […]
This is a continuation of our autumn 2007 trip to the Lake George area of the Adirondacks. After our failed excursion to Fort Ticonderoga, we hankered for a real adventure. We drove around the small town of Ticonderoga (nicknamed “Ti” by the businessfolk and evidenced by their proprietor’s signs: Ti Barbershop, Ti Pizza). We were […]
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