We’d just hiked in Rickett’s Glen State Park (post here) in Pennsylvania witnessing waterfall after waterfall (we say 19 in all) two weeks before we arrived at Watkins Glen State Park in New York’s Finger Lakes Region. The Gorge…
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June 2022
We’ve been on an inventor kick lately and today’s post is about someone who should be a household name – Glenn Curtiss! We’ve been to Edison’s lab, George Eastman’s home (Kodak Museum), and were pleasantly surprised to find a…
And yes, I’m referring to the secret beauty of Upstate NY. OK…this title may be a bit unfair. After all, there are a lot of people around the country who think all Californian’s look like “Baywatch” models and that…
How many times have you used the expression, “A picture is worth a thousand words”? That capture of a single moment in time can convey emotion, express a mood, share an idea, and tell a story. It preserves important…
My knowledge of the Eerie Canal is brief – it was the first waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes which helped accelerate the settlement of those western areas. The Lockport Locks are one portion of the…
Sometime old movies or television shows reference honeymooning in Niagara Falls, which always seemed weird to me. I’d also heard that a lot of people travel to the US just to see it. Again, seemed weird…that is, until we…
From the Zippo Museum in Bradford PA (post here) we drove north through Great Valley to Four Mile Creek State Park to camp. The next day we’d planned a bike ride to Fort Niagara State Park, but it was…
From Rickett’s Glen State Park, we rolled through Coudersport (which sounds nasty but isn’t), Port Allegany, and into Bradford and one of the best roadside attractions in Pennsylvania – the Zippo / Case Museum & Flagship Store! This find…
There’s something magical about a waterfall and any hike with a waterfall destination feels like a great reward! On any given day if you asked me to pick my favorite place for waterfalls, I’d like shout out, “Maui’s road…
Doug and I have both worked with a lot of great inventors but also with a lot of amazing engineers, technicians, and assemblers who are the ones who make big ideas work in real life. The invention is nothing…
