Well, we are a couple of days behind in our reporting, and we apologize, but there is just no time to sleep let alone write our blog. We left our hotel at 7:30 a.m. and began our long (5 hour) drive to Cooperstown. By now most everyone is sleeping on the bus! Our traveling to upstate New York went well, although the bus seemed to be having a little trouble going uphill. The drive through the countryside was beautiful. We are so glad to see this part of the country. About an hour before we arrived it began to rain, but [View Full Entry]

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Just getting used to the format of blog entries. In 2 weeks we'll be on the way to Ecuador, my first foray into South America, and I promised to keep friends and family posted as our adventures unfold. Or as we reveal our complete ineptness at this sort of travel and screw up royally. I'm posting some photos from a recent trip to 'the other coast'. Charlie and I live in a small, rural upstate New York town between the Catskill and Adirondack mountains, New York City to the south and Albany (the state capital) to the northeast. We're embarking on [View Full Entry]

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We got an early start to Goat Island which is in the middle of the river above the Falls and has trails that take you right to the brinks of both the American and Horseshoe Falls. It was impressive, but we did this at Yellowstone earlier in the trip so there was no novelty factor involved, just a lot more water! By 9:30AM we were on the road again, with a goal of Cooperstown and the National Baseball Hall of Fame by about 2:00. We would have made it except we stopped for a long lunch at this little grocery/deli/restaurant off [View Full Entry]

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