- Tannersville and Hunter Mountain…the ski area where we would go up after work on Friday, night ski until the lifts closed, then hang out in the area bars before going home.
- · Hunted for some property we used to own on a mountain outside of town.
- · Browse around Kingston to see what had changed…Roundout Creek.
- · Rhinecliffe Bridge, Rhinebeck Aerodrome, Rhinebeck Inn
- · Ashokan Reservoir, Peekamoose,
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- · Locate former IBM colleague, and friends Erv and Marge Farnett who still live in Woodstock and really DID go to the concert.
- · Mountain rambles on backroads through beautiful mountains.
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Thursday Sept 8 Lake George to Woodstock. Took I87 (Northway) through Albany because of the traffic so did not get to stop at Rennselaer to recognize another of my ancestors...this one Dutch...(ADD INFO HERE). Got to Woodstock before lunch...it was a little over 100 miles...Began checking Woodstock....Gilded Carriage, lunch at Little Bear, Church...tried to find Elfs but failed to recognize it on Glasco Turnpike. Joshua's not open. Woodstock Pub defunct... Drove Blue Mtn Road (not the right road after all) Took in Byrdcliffe, Maverick Theater, Holly Hills, gas, Walked Woodstock, Garden Cafe wine and planning. Dinner chicken salad, Clementines. Rain, showered, hooked up TV saw part of Panther's game...not sure who finally won...Panthers behind when we turned it off.
Friday Sept 9
IBM, Kingston uptown and Washington Avenue, Roundout Creek...pretty but gave up on restaurants. Went looking for Bridge Circle or LPI...found neither...ended up in Saugerties. Forgot how narrow the streets were and the crooked turns before the bridge on 9W, turning at the church. Amazed at the new Diamond Mine restaurant and hotel where the old mill used to be...Used to ice skate on the Esopus Creek in winter above the falls behind the mill. Gelato to die for. Great panini sandwich that we split.
Roamed Holly Hills...talked to son and to be daughter in law of current owners and got an update on the house. Still no air conditioning...downstairs apartment washed out in a storm. Still looks good. Whole neighborhood looks really good.
Took a bunch of backroads through the Catskill Park and ended up in Tannersville and Hunter Mtn where I learned to ski (ice).
We kept seeing the Esopus Creek and had never thought about how it snaked around among and between Kingston/Hurley, Saugerties..
Woodstock Sept 10
Left at 10 am Hurley House Got updates on all the changes in the Hurley area in the last 35 years. , Old Hurley, Corn, Hurley Mountain Inn, .lFording Place, Shooting Site, Peekamoose Blue Hole, (eat on road) Wander around to Rondout reservoir then Ashokan Dam, no fishing place, Maverick Road . Home at 6…Ate corn and tomatoes...discovered all my pictures before today are gone on my bad external hard drive....
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