Tag: New York
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October 5, 2023. Clayton to Quebec City, Canada.
Started the day with a beautiful sunrise off our deck… After showering. I saw this on the sink counter and had to laugh… Today we traveled about 330 miles (roughly 5 1/2 hours) from Clayton to Quebec City. It’s a pretty straight shot with divided two-lane highways most of the way. We first traversed the…
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October 4, 2023. Ithaca to Clayton (Thousand Islands), NY.
We had a nice leisurely early morning at the Inn and then took off around 9:30 to our next destination, Clayton up near the Canadian border. We wanted to find a place somewhere between Ithaca and Quebec City and Lorna found Clayton as an interesting place to visit on Pinterest. Only about a 2 1/2…
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October 3, 2023. Ithaca.
Today, we explored Ithaca and specifically Cornell University and the Lab of Ornithology. But first, we needed our morning coffee. The Inn has a cool coffee machine on the ground floor in a large conservatory-like room with lots of light and actual live plants. Some of the other common areas at the Argos… Today was…
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October 2, 2023. Cooperstown to Ithaca, NY.
We awoke to heavy fog outside our hotel window. Today, we ventured from Cooperstown to Ithaca, where Cornell University and its world-renowned Laboratory of Ornithology is located. In High School, I was thinking of going there to study ornithology but really didn’t have the grades to get in so I went in a different direction.…
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October 1, 2023. Essex to Cooperstown, NY.
I haven’t written anything about it up until now because there wasn’t anything to report. But today, the start of October, was our first fall “leaf-peeping” day of the trip so far (albeit probably at least a week or so off from the peak) as we travelled from Essex to Cooperstown, NY. Cooperstown, renowned for…
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September 26, 2023. Fredericksburg, VA to Mystic, CT.
Today, we awoke in Fredericksburg to cool and overcast conditions with some light drizzly rain. Our view… The Hampton room was quite nice and included your standard buffet breakfast downstairs. Part of our room… After breakfast and packing up the car, we were on the road by 8:20. Originally, we’d planned to stop for the…
East Coast Road Trip: From Clemson to Montreal 