Econo Lodge - Ithaca

... I was hoping to get a chance to meet Baby Poland, but alas, I will have to wait until we return for a visit! <br><br>And so ends this chapter in our families life and we are off to a new adventure. Thanks to all of the amazing friends we have made during our time here, we will all leave a piece of our hearts here!

... the way. Saturday was a gorgeous day at the Lake; evidently those have been few and far between this summer. The 6 girls shopped at the Windmill and rode the jetskis, swam and went for a boat ride. The 3 sisters relaxed and partook of adult beverages!

... who dropped her laundry basket and it slid two blocks down the hill on the ice. In between those hills are the gorges with waterfalls tumbling down the rocks. The one pictured supposedly has Carl Sagan's astronomy lab at the top which he bought from Cornell.<br><br>People also plant gardens everywhere they can: both flower and vegetable. As we walked to the falls they sidewalks on either side were filled with flowers and vegetables.<br>

... those same rights were just automatically given to men. Well, white men anyway. <br>- Left to drive to Ithaca, home of Moosewood! (For those of you who do not know, Moosewood is a little vegetarian restaurant that became so popular it spawned tons of cookbooks, three of which we own and use on a weekly basis. A Moosewood cookbook is to a vegetarian what Joy of Cooking is to the rest of you.)<br><br>Things we did in ...

... his wine tours in Ithaca. Lynette and David, the innkeepers, were gracious and saw to our every need and then some. The inn itself is fabulous. They opened 10 years ago and have been hit ever since. Their breakfasts are creative culinary at its best and their desserts are "to die for." We are taking several recipes home with us. <br><br><br> <br>We walked down the street to ...

... 10% the cost of my RTW trip. Like tithing that feels about right. However I do want to be clear, mostly to myself, that offsetting is in no way a positive solution for our environmental problems. Nor is it a way to psychologically sooth any trauma I might incur from realizing what harm the emissions I cause create. It is merely a way to limit some of the destruction and to practice awareness of responsibility for my actions.

Drove out to Ithaca today to attend the graduate fair at Cornell. I am really beginning to enjoy my "tour" of the Ivys...All I need now is a visit to Harvard and Brown and I think I have visited them all! Today was an especially long day - the fair at Cornell this morning, the drive back to Syracuse for that evening fair and then dropping the rental car off ...

... she called her remedy for this kind of thing which was Lavender oil and herbs from the Medicine Wheel garden. I took her advice but sooner than later I had to go see someone. Our last night there, Fran and Paul came back and were planning on having a celebration for the Moon up by the tepees that night. Of course we decided to go. When we got up their there was a huge circle of people, some playing tribal instruments others ...

... before the visit. Score: 3 out of 5. Financial: Just like the other Ivy's, expensive but lots of scholarships and grants available. Score: 4 out of 5. Other: There just didn't seem to be much character here, and there was a big Greek life-something I'm not fond of. Not a very close and inviting community. Score: 2 out of 5. Average Score: 3 / 5

Ithaca, which I knew as home to Cornell University is about 40 miles north of Binghamton. Some months ago I has some correspondence with a fellow historian at Ithaca College who said that given I would be at Bingo it would make sens to come and see a pretty town on a nice lake. Then it transpired that Maria Cook, Professor of Migration Studies at Cornell, was a member pf Project SafeCom, the human rights organisation which I chair. So I arranged to visit. In the mean time I had ...