Next Monday we wake in Holyoke, MA and hit the hay in Cobleskill, NY. What to do with the day?
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A display of hideous graphics focused on the goal of figuring out where the smokestack I can see to the south is sitting.
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Alan - May 3, 2004 11:44 AM
OK - I'll start...the Iroqois Indian Museum is at Howes Cave near Cobleskill.
Alan - May 3, 2004 11:49 AM
And caves - I fancy a bit of speelunking...<blockquote class="smalltext">Howe Caverns<br>
RR 1 Box 107, Howes Cave, NY 12092<br>
(518)296-8900 (518)296-8992(fax)<br>
Cave complex, 150+ft underground. Boat ride on underground lake. Elevators, rock formation, paved walkways, stalactites and stalagmites, constant 52 degrees Fahrenheit. Open year round, daily 9AM until 6PM; closed Thanksgiving, December 25, January 1. </blockquote>
Alan - May 3, 2004 11:53 AM
...and sure there is the baseball Hall of Fame but what child's life is not enriched by a Belgian brewery tour:<blockquote class="smalltext"><p>
Brewery Ommegang<br>
656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown, NY 13326<br>
(607)547-8184 (800)656-1212 (607)547-8374(fax)<br>
<a href="mailto:info@belgianexperts.com">info@belgianexperts.com</a><br>
Offers tours of Belgian-style farmstead brewery. Tours daily through the summer season. Gift shop with beer, Belgian merchandise, chocolates, breads, cheeses, special events, tours and tastings. Picnic area available. Open Memorial Day thru Labor Day - weekends year round, Mon - Fri 2PM-7PM, Sat & Sun, 11-7. </blockquote>
portland - May 3, 2004 1:41 PM
i'd just drive all night to portland if i were you.
Alan - May 3, 2004 1:52 PM
Caves, man, caves! And this is on the way back.
We are doing #4 across lower VT and NH on Thursday after leaving Saranac Lake that morning. Be there for supp-supps. You scope the bongo shops yet? Where are the big waves? I am going in for sure. The Gulf o'Maine must be 42º F by now...
Craig Willson - May 3, 2004 2:35 PM
Howe Caverns
Absolutely - I had forgotten about that. Ask them turn out the lights when you are on the tour. The most amazing blackness you are likely to ever experience.
You are passing through a little early in the year to experience a lot of the 'kids stuff.'
Alan - May 3, 2004 2:39 PM
I am fully expecting the caves will create a pre-school nightmare memory similar to mine with the tea cups ride at Disneyland circa 1966:<p><img src="images/2004/teacups.jpg" hspace="20" vspace="20"><p>The horror...the horror...
Craig Willson - May 3, 2004 3:33 PM
If you make it to Glens Falls, take Rte 9 North for a few miles and turn left on Aviation Road. (You are now in Queensbury) - take road to end which will take you to Mountain Road. Cross Mountain road and go up dirt road to first left. Park in dirt area and walk to your left into the woods and look for old grave belong to Abagail West. You have now reach the spot where I lost my virginity. Behold and weep.
Alan - May 3, 2004 5:25 PM
I knew that was leading to the spinning tea cup thing somehow.