Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Our road trip was all over the place. For example, the above photos, all taken from the car, feature an Amish woman waving to us in New York, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and storm clouds over the hills around the NY-PA border. Isaac and I, within 12 months, have driven from the Gulf of Mexico…
Miss ELOISE hoots and hoots when she sees blueberries. Do not try to feed her yogurt when she can clearly see the blueberries RIGHT THERE on the table. She will stuff them into her little mouth as fast as she can. Sometimes they even come out undigested: pooblerries. Gross. Anyway, this week she was feeling…
Except they were monks. Our tour boat was a veritable United Nations with these monks, a woman in a sari, people speaking French, Chinese and Japanese. My kids were snoozing so I had plenty of time to ponder spiritual analogies of an international assemblage gathered on this small boat in the no man’s land between…
And mission accomplished. We’re staying with family friends from way back at: Home Again Farm 37098 Schell Road Theresa, NY 13691-2226 Phone: (315)628-5302
Baby on board! Chris and I applied for the kids’ passports early this month, before I knew when or if we would be this close to the Canadian boarder. Well, they hadn’t arrived before we left, so I was bummed. Until we went on a boat tour of the Thousand Islands that sailed us across…
At that lake in Pennsylvania, my dad got a good tip for the couple of days we had between PA and the alpacas: Boldt Castle in the Thousand Islands. George Boldt, who owned part of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as well as six of the Thousand Islands, built this soaring castle for his beloved wife, Louise…
Another tip from the guy who recommended Boldt Castle was to try the floating restaurant in Alexandria Bay, which is a town, not a bay. Unfortunately that restaurant closed two years ago, but we had a great time drinking local beer under huge trees nearby. Maybe it was because the high season doesn’t start until…
