Travel Blogs from Utica, United States
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Planning, Packing, Preparing, and Departure
Tested out all the tents, chairs, tables, and gear. Time to test ...
Awesome water slides and seester Lisa
... and gardener in the Chicago area, it was just the special visit I needed to make me feel better. On the way to the campsite in Utica, Illinois, we hit a patch of poop wind - "Oh man, that's bad," I said. "It was like a tumbleweed of poop," Bret ...
Put Me in Coach, I'm Ready to Play Today!
... miles today: 223. Miles ridden since leaving Tennessee September 21: 1,822 To view today's complete route from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to Utica, New York, click here. What will tomorrow bring? Well, for one thing it'll be Sarah's birthday, and I ...
Many faces of the Canal
... to want to cause me harm....... there were some parts of the day that I might have pedaled a bit faster as a result! I arrived in Utica in good time at about 12pm. However, my bike was suffering from having had 3 long days on the trail. It was covered in ...
600 bikers coming across the erie canal trail
Off to Utica, and I am crossing the path of 600 cross state cyclists. Needless to write a lot of interesting greetings and a few quick ...
Clearwater, MN to Utica, Illinois
Another morning with a 6:00 wake-up. This is OK since I have to start doing this again at school next week. Plus, I like to leave early and get to our destination as early as possible. We left around 7:00 and after 30 min. we were in the Twin Cities and ...
Visiting the Northeast Car Museum
Jacqui's parent's just moved (again) and bought a house in Utica. So since we actually had a free weekend at home, we decided to go and visit them and see the new house. The house itself is really cool. It was built in the 1970's by an ...
Family time for Merrill and bbq for all
A late start out of Sebree took us a hilly 25 miles east to Utica, Kentucky. We were fortunately invited to join Merrill and his neice and her boyfriend, Leah and Chris, for a great lunch. They drove up from Tennessee and indulged us with some good ...
Monday
... to pay. I wish people would just read directions and buy maps. We stopped around 5pm at the Hickory Hollow Campground in Utica, Illinois. It was kind of weird all the town names we saw were the same names as in New York, even an Oswego ...
Almost a full day at home
... I left for Brazil back in January. (I'm sorry I missed you Theresa, we got out of GF late and needed to rush back to Utica. I'll stop back in my next time home) Now we are off and running to St. Louis for Oz's wedding, Brazil for a Pressure ...
Utica, NY
So we worked at the Walmart in Utica today, but are spending the night in Auburn, NY right on the Finger Lakes. Aside from work, we did not really do much today. We did find that one of our trailer tires was flat again when we went out to our ...
Ally's Fault
... ended up being ok! Wow, talk about a nerve racking 3 minutes! LOL! Now, we are stopped for the night. We stopped in Utica, Illinois. It's pretty funny because all of the exits in this area are names of towns in Upstate New York near Sandy's house. There ...
2nd Hello to NY State
... border. On our drive we saw a parade of '50 and '60 cars Plymouth's and Mercuries. We are not really staying in Utica but outside of it 'cause the "eyetalians" had taken over the city due to an Italian festival. I almost got run over by them ...
VFD
... (later found out that the others did the same). Then about 3 miles out from "town" it started to rain. By the time I reached Utica fire dept.(73 miles) there was lightening and it was time to be off the road. This place is brand new with some driveway ...
Day 3
Nice Campground...in Utica, Illinois...still trying to figure out why they don't pronounce the s on the end of Illinois!!! Of course we went to Walmart and even went to Walgreens. How did we ever live without either place??? Boy ...
So ends our trip.
... , followed the GPS along a misleading path through the Empire State and finally arrived a few minutes late. On to the homecoming Utica show! The drive was just fine but by the time we arrived in town, the ONLY room available was at Davis Motel, 3 ...
It's my birthday!
Hmmm birthdays just dont have that same umph when your over 30. Day started off great with breakfast with Scott, Lora & Virginia then we took off for Mt. Washington. Another beautiful day and we got to the top just before the rainy ...
Heading for Springfield Hall of Fame
... on the phone with expedia that the parking was free as we are into such cost cutting!! Here we are updating the blog in Utica and planning the Basketball Hall of Fame for tomorrow, maybe the Volley one to and heading for Boston. Mary is doing a great job ...
Day 8 - Heading north towards Chicago
... Nauvoo. Sorry! So anyway, today was a pretty uneventful day. We drove about 4 hours from Nauvoo, IL to the KOA in Utica, IL. This is the closest KOA to Chicago. We will get up early in the morning and drive the 80 miles to Chicago ...
Beautiful Theatre!
... Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Great Artists Series which features the best in opera, recital artists, and dance companies; the Utica Symphony Orchestra; and the Mohawk Valley Ballet. The elegant Stanley lobbies are the site for many receptions and ...
Biking from Utica to Rome - New York, that is
In my search for new and exciting - but flat - places to bike, I missed this section of the Erie Canalway on my previous jaunts out that way. I can't remember why though. And it was unfortunate because I thought this section was ...
passing through albany
spent the night at a motel 6 and started out early the next day. we drove through albany before heading north to the ...
Drums along the Mohawk
A little past Utica, we rode along side the Mohawk River. The Mohawk River Valley we saw was just beautiful. There were rocky cliffs along parts of the river - and the river split off here and there to finger around islands of trees, only to meet up to ...
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