Courtyard By Marriott Ithaca-Lansing

Well, today we leave the only home I have known. It is a wonderful city and I am proud to have been born in such a beautiful place and to have been welcomed to the world by the great friends here. Clearly my parents loved it here as they have been rather sad about leaving. My good friend Nadya even came by so say good ...

We arrived at M&T's cottage on Seneca Lake Friday evening after a nice dinner with my Dad and Lorraine. Evidently we followed the rain all the way from Cleveland because we had very little rain on our drive and the visitors from the East had rain ...

... Falls which we heard was only about a mile from the inn. It was fabulous! One of the bumper stickers in Ithaca says that "Ithaca is gorges" and they are everywhere. <br><br>Ithaca is a college town with both Ithaca College and Cornell University finding their homes there. It is a town of hills in much the same way that San Francisco and Seattle have hills only they have snow and ice in the winter. We were told the story of a ...

... br> - Walked down the street to the site of the Seneca Falls Women&#8217;s Convention (the big one for the right to vote&#8230;remember?). <br>- Visited the Women&#8217;s Rights National Park. This was FAR more interactive and attention grabbing than the Women&#8217;s Hall of Fame. Therefore, Christen paid attention and actually learned some things. As Robie noted, it is incredible how many rights women had to fight for ...

... rush hour! <br><br>The drive from Niagara to Ithaca was beautiful. The rolling hills covered in trees formed a verdant backdrop to the laughter and friendship in the car. We arrived with only one slight misunderstanding with Google maps at the William Henry Miller Inn and fell in love immediately. We booked this B&amp;B on a recommendation from Jay who had stayed there ...

... with what felt right, toward the higher of what emissions I had calculated. I chose the Kenya Reforestation project with carbonfootprint.com. I liked the idea of knowing that something tangible and easily observable will come of my donation. I liked knowing how planting 13 trees affect the community, workers, and environment in a specific way making up for the 13 tons of emissions that my travels created. The donation was for ...

... so that I can catch the train in the morning! I'm taking Amtrak to New Haven tomorrow and really looking forward to the trip: get a little reading done, get some photo's uploaded to facebook, return a few emails... I have an article to write for the December issue of The Advisor. I've been procrastinating writing it, so hopefully I will be inspired tomorrow.

... smell the strong aroma of pancakes and fruit. We were told that the were made from flax seed and the berries were grown in their garden. Let me just say that was probably the best damn breakfast I had in a long time and every one that followed was just a good as the last. <br><br>    Unfortunately in the middle of our stay I got an infection from a bug bite that I got wile we were at our first destination, Woodstock. "Sage" offered ...

... suite in one of the older buildings. Score: 3 out of 5. Academics: Apparently great academics, with lots of big-name professors, including the two men who head the US Mars Rover project and the man who invented the power-nap theory (and who tests on students). But ultimately, not much that I'm too interested in, though I'd thought ...

... have been eroded into shape, looking for all the world like spa pools. As the stream trends down, you come to the falls, and see them drop the next 60 or so metres down into deep pools, which then flow on, at the foot of these 160 - 180 metre slate cliffs. This was certainly one of the most impressive and uttterly beautiful natural sites I have ever seen. If ant of you ever come to New York, you simply must make the trip to Ithaca. This is place that is a wonder. It must be seen.