Extendedstay Albany Capital

As luck would have it, I fell off my bike and broke my collarbone 10 days before my departure to hike in Italy and tour around Turkey. Fortunately, it was not a bad fracture so I was able to travel, and could even carry some weight with my right arm, but couldn't hold a backpack on the shoulder.

My itinerary is: fly from JFK to ...

Upstate New York is just lovely, wooded hills broken up with patches of small farm land - old red barns next to white houses set into brilliant green fields. The thruway is occasionally high enough to look down into small valleys that look like christmas villages. The air was cool, misty and the traffic minimal. All of which was a blessing today after yesterday. I actually went to the car and got a sweatshirt.

I saw cows colored ...

The first part of the ride from the village of Lake George to Glens Falls is mostly on a bike trail. It was nice to have a shorter, much flatter ride the next day down to Easton Mountain, where I attended a retreat over Labor Day weekend.

After the fun experience of really checking tire pressure and filling to specs I was on my way - sounds simple but Visions are not. Too much hardware in the way and make sure your have a gauge with a little hose.
First stop, a short hop to Albany to visit with friends I see far too little of. Delightful way to begin the trip, and a shady spot for the bike to roost for the night.

The weather was a bit overcast and chilly for the early part of the day as we skirted the eastern side of the Catskills. The terrain heading north becomes fairly flat between the Catskills and the Adirondacks ...

Amazing how after a day of rain a day of sun is so appreciated! Today was nothing short of spectacuar. When we started this morning you couldn't see the nose on your face for the fog. It was rather cool but that burned off to a picture perfect day. The wind was out of the south so it was quartering into us for most of the day but not much in the way. The Mohawk valley is beautiful the towns quaint everything is so ...

... afternoon wandering around, enjoying the atmosphere and architecture. It has been called "a finest dictionary of American architecture in New York State."and its easy to see why. We took loads of loads of photos… yeh… I know, you’re surprised aren’t you? It was a lazy, sunny afternoon and bemused residents gave us the odd glance as we clicked away. One chap stopped to chat and we discovered that at one time the ...

We could not have asked for a better weekend! Add the perfect weather to having our friends & family around and we could not have asked for more! The boys and I arrived around 10:30 Friday morning. Our first visitors arrived around 11:00 am and stayed well into the night to enjoy a beautiful campfire. Sami joined us after work and settled in to one of the ...

... precious. To give these up for three months for the terrors of the uncomfortable and unknown seemed crazy. I didnīt want to go." John Steinbeck Travels with Charley, In search of America, 1962

We were all following the game with the 9/10 girls, and we are so happy to have all the girls 9/10 11/12 13/14 State Champs !!! What a year for Waterford , not to leave out the 13 year old boys. As a Smith coach, way to go to all the Smith girls ! It made my day to see that Talia was able to tie it up ! We have a tough game in front of us today with Rhode Island. We play at noon, and it looks to be another hot one. The ...