Blogs from Syracuse, New York, United States, North America - page 4

God bless you all! I first wanted to say that having this way to communicate to all of our friends and family has been fantastic! All of your responses of love and encouragement have been so great. The kids love to hear from their grandparents especially and Clara and Sam now have e-mail addresses and have communicating faithfully to them. As you have heard, we moved into our beautiful home on Isle of Pines road; it has been a glorious Fall with the tree colors and the weather actually being in the mid 50s and sunny so far.........The calm before the storm?!?!?!?!? What is amazing is that we moved into our new home, I secured my job at Sears, and we got the kids into school all within 10 days of being here! Matthew 6:33 says: ... read more

Hi all. Just a really quick note to all who haven't heard, we have been sent to Baldwinsville, New York! It is a suburb of the Syracuse area (upstate NY) and we are very blessed to be here! We are staying with Dan and Dee Davis who are the Region Coordinators for New York state. I will send more detailed entrys when we get our housing, get the kids in school, and get our jobs. Love to all of you! Jim, Marsha, Clara, Sam, and Hannah.... read more

After having our original flight (Rochester to Philadelphia to Denver) canceled Saturday morning, we were left with quite the East Coast tour instead. Our adventures began in the wee hours of the morning with a snowy drive (courtesy of Jason's parents) to the Syracuse airport. We left the house around 4am and got to the airport just before 6am. We ever so patiently waited in line to check our bags and quickly kissed our snowboards goodbye as we sent them out on a journey of their own. We proceeded to the security check-point and after we were officially safe people we meandered our way over to the gate. We peeked out the window at all of the snow and we were both quite nervous about whether that plane would make it off of the ground anywhere ... read more

As a local, it may seem silly for me to write about "travelling" to a town only about 45 minutes from my hometown, but my goal here is not to write for myself but for others, and especially to write about the great places only locals know about. Syracuse is not much of a tourist attraction, but there are many great places to go downtown, especially on a Friday or Saturday night. Hanover Square is a great place to start, located on Water St., between S. Warren St. and S. Salina St. Featuring live music in at least one establishment any given Friday night, there's always something going on here. In the summer there are often concerts in the square itself. This past Friday night I saw a great classic rock cover band, and audience members ... read more

We stopped off at a place called Syracuse which is upstate new york on the way to ‎Niagara Falls. Its a University town on the former Erie canal network and although its ‎quite a big town its small by US standards. ‎ The hostel was a little strange, we were the only travelers there and the only other ‎resident was elderly and seemed ill. The hostel took up the first floor of an old house on ‎the suburbs of Syracuse and everything was musty and creaky. It reminded us of every ‎US horror film ever made and then on the first night we had a massive electrical storm, ‎great. ‎ The next day we had to leave the hostel early for the day because they have a thing called ‎a "lockout" i.e. you get kicked out ... read more