Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no…
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New York
From NY’s Finger Lakes we had two weeks in the Adirondacks before needing to be in Plattsburg NY. There are so many lakes and places to visit that it would be tough for me to say “you must do…
Doug and I are beyond fortunate to have good health, supportive friends, family that keep us grounded, and great careers that have now afforded us this opportunity to travel. In general, we’re living the life a lot of people…
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…
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…
