Blogs from Binghamton, New York, United States, North America

Our last site of lodging was at our son, Cory’s, house outside of Corning, NY. The night before our departure, the two Cory’s re-enacted the movie”The Hustler” with Fast Eddie and Minnesota Fats. They moved around the pool table swiftly and accurately. The games were close but the father finally admitted the son might have won...but it was almost too close to tell. When Cory and I were in college at the University of Buffalo, I had to wait for my “Fast Eddie” to win some money on the pool table before we could go out on date. He always won and we would always have an exciting date. Oh, the memories. On the day we left Cory’s house, we made plans to meet up with dear friends for lunch. Sue has been a treasured friend ... read more

Heading to the airport - and testing out the site. ... read more

Tuesday. Oct 30th. Niantec, CT to Oyster Bay, NY. We had a horrible night at anchor the boat was rolling all night. Vito wanted to be underway by 0700 to catch the tide going south in Long Island. By sunrise as we made ready, the laptop wouldn’t catch the signal from the GPS antenna. An hour went by and I got ready to navigate by paper and then Vitto decided to erase Norton and discovered that it was blocking entry to the necessary computer port. We left the anchorage at 0816 with the tide 1.5 kts. in our favor and GPS working. At 0921 we went by Long Sand Shoal. The swells got big, wind 10 to 15 Kts out of the west right on the nose. It was a rough ride. The aft blower and ... read more

I finally starting my travel journal! I would have done this sooner, even before I left but I've been ridiculously busy. I'm finally in Scotland, in my flat, in the right classes, with food, and bedding, and now internet. I guess I'm figuring it out! It's been so hectic though, going through orientation and then moving and having to start classes immediately. So lets start from the beginning! My flight left from JFK on Monday the 1st in a horrible storm. I got to the airport around 1:30 and checked in around 2. There were a few people from my program checking in when I was so I got to meet some people right away. We all had to wear red ribbons on our bags so we could be identified. There was supposed to be a ... read more

We have covered a lot of territory. Yesterday we were a little lost and drove down even into Pennsylvania before turning back to the Finger Lakes Region. To see the Peter Whitmer Home we were on the wrong side of one of those lakes but just kept on going through the beautiful grape-growing areas along those long laeks . Truth is, the lake and scenery reminded is quite a bit of the vineyards and scenes near Versoix (Geneva) Switzerland on the lake there. We stopped for a wine-flavoured ice-cream dish that was really good. (no fear for driving or word of wisdom because the alcohol is evaporated in cooking the flavoring sauce). We did get back up to that historic site, again through beautiful country - some of it occupied by god-fearing Amish people. Need we ... read more