I took my usual red-eye flight arriving at 10 am on a Thursday. After the required Dunkin Donuts stop we did a short walk in Onondaga Park. Then it was nap time for Randy.
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| The upside-down traffic light near Coleman's, with the Green light on top. |
This trip had 2 overnighters. The first trip was to Ithaca. We hiked Taughannock Falls on day 1.
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| Taughannock Falls. Notice how small people are in the viewing area (lower right). |
Happy hour was at the Ithaca Ale House in the commons, followed by pizza at the Nines. Yum. We stayed at the Meadow Court motel. Never again. It was very noisy with, as Randy put it, meth dealers. Day 2 was breakfast at the State Diner with entertainment provided by the local police and a stopped SUV. After several police cars showed up the 2 SUV riders were handcuffed. Worth having a second cup of coffee to watch this. We hiked the strenuous Lucifer Falls, swam at the Lower Falls (very refreshing after a sweaty hike), an ice cream at Doug’s Fish Fry, happy hour of a Tanqueray and Tonic at the Sherwood Inn followed by an excessive fried fish at Doug’s again.
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| Lucifer Falls hike. Notice the flaking shale rock to be walked under. |
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| No York State does have nice parks. |
Luckily, Howie and Diane were in town and drove out in their 2007 Austin Martin Vantage to meet us post-dinner at the park.
The second overnighter was a trip to Stockbridge, MA to tour the Norman Rockwell museum. We had lunch at Once Upon A Table which was down a quaint alley. Afterward, we headed home by way of an overnight at Tracy's place in Albany. A fun get-together evening cookout with excessive wine, port, and a late-night perimeter walk. Tracy was back in Albany to move all her stuff out of her townhouse and haul it to Phoenix. Good luck to her.
Tina was able to join a cookout at Bill’s place. Plus later, Laura and her boyfriend Matt brought over dessert.
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| Matt, Tina, Bill, and Laura |
Saturday night, we joined Tina and Laura for a trip to Cazenovia Lake to hear Adam sing barbershop.
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| At Brewster Inn in Caz prior to barbershop. |
Stevens: we were able to catch up with all 5 of them for lunch. They literally just got back from a vacation in Canada. Ben is showed me his YouTube channel and how adept he is with a GoPro, Ben was demonstrating how to make origami and Mesi instructed me on how to cut and dice avocados.
In Syracuse, we played only one round of golf at the usual place, and Bill crushed me. Must have been since we played a different course.
The temperature was hot. We still had many Onondaga Park walks and expanded to Beaver Lake for a loop. We had meals at Beeville diner, Borio’s, and the new Clarks Ale House.
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| The new Clark's Ale House. Still have Beef on Wick. |
Randy was able to overload the dishwasher with soap, which leaked out like a I Love Lucy show. After he cleaned 30 years’ worth of slim off the door gasket, it was watertight again. He also was able to delete McAfee off my iMac which got my Apple TV working again. Randy has to earn his time in Syracuse.
