It's our third trip through this part of New York. On both previous trips we traveled US-20 and loved it. The countryside is beautiful and we enjoy traveling through the small towns. Today we needed to make time because we have reservations at Geneva State Park in...
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Gray Cayuga
Our route today brought south to Ithaca and then north on the Scenic Byway on the western shore of Lake Cayuga. We enjoyed our planned stop at Bellwether Cidery which is now also a winery. We first visited them two years ago on our maiden voyage in our T@B!  Our plans...
Grover Cleveland Boyhood Home
Biography Video Well this definitely wasn't planned, and doesn't really count as a visit to a presidential site but we discovered this morning that Grover Cleveland lived here in Fayetteville NY during his boyhood. He's the one who was elected in 1884, defeated by...
Cedar Grove
This morning's adventure in Green Lakes State Park near Syracuse, New York was a portion of the Old Growth Trail. It took us through an amazing grove of cedar trees along the edge of Green Lake. It's overcast today and not as warm as yesterday but with the humidity...
Meromictic
 No, that's not an adjective we were familiar with until today but we're staying at Green Lakes State Park near Syracuse, New York and the two lakes here are very deep and are meromictic meaning that the deep and the surface waters do not experience seasonal mixing....
Erie Canal: Yesterday & Today
Another intriguing chapter in the history of transportation in America, is the building and operation of the Erie Canal beginning in the late 1810's. We visited the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse, New York a community that owes its very existence to the canal....
Oldest Covered Bridge
When we checked in to the campground office here in Glimmerglass State Park near Cooperstown, New York, the ranger suggested we visit the Hyde Hall Covered Bridge, the oldest covered bridge in the country. So we made the short hike from the campground this morning....
Glimmerglass
Yesterday afternoon we pulled into Glimmerglass State Park near Cooperstown in upstate NY and got Campsite 37. It's spacious, surrounded by woods, and outside the campground loop so we're separated a bit from other campers yet close enough to the facilities. This...
Brattleboro
Our route today is taking us across southern Vermont. We paused to unsuccessfully search for a geocache but loved exploring the covered bridge in Brattleboro. Just outside of town we did indeed discover a cache near the Chelsea Royal Diner and took the opportunity to...
Oxbow
After yesterday's adventures, we settled in on Site 70 at Oxbow Campground near Hillsborough NH. It's a pretty little family owned place with spacious sites and friendly folks. Our overnight in New Hampshire qualifies us for a new state sticker, our first since...
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Indiana State Museum
After visiting New Harmony, the second oldest town in the state, we headed to Vincennes the oldest city in Indiana, established by French fur traders in 1732. It was only natural for us to begin our visit at the Indiana State Museum where we joined a tour in progress....
Angel Mounds
If you've been following our blog recently, you may have noticed that we keep visiting locations that were home to Native Americans in prehistory, meaning before Europeans arrived on the North American continent and started recording their observations of the people...
The Maximilian-Bodmer Exhibit
The two of us have officially had our minds blown. As a part of today's 1 PM tour of New Harmony, Indiana beginning at The Atheneum Visitors Center, we were able to visit the Maximilian-Bodmer Exhibit which tells the story of a German naturalist and a Swiss artist...













