La Quinta Plattsburgh

October 20, 2009

Back to Shelburne today for a visit to the amazing Shelburne Museum where over 150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the Museum grounds. Impressionist paintings, 19th century American folk art, quilts and textiles, decorative arts, furniture, American paintings, and a dazzling array of decoys, and carriages ...

Left Bennington this morning (32 degrees!), and rode through small villages and beautiful countryside to The Shelburne Museum. We had 3 hours to explore it and only scratched the surface. It would be impossible to describe what the Shelburne is like, so this link to their web site will do it more justice than I ...

... and old motel repainted as a La Quinta. I really like the hotels La Quinta builds, and HATE the ones they buy and repaint.

Burlington is a wonderful, lively college town, and it is full of coffee shops, bars, restaurants, and clubs. With its waterfront on Lake Champlain, it is wonderfully scenic. We had dinner in a seafood restaurant overlooking the ferry dock. We ...

I camped about eight miles north of the touristy village of Lake Place at a small campground right next to Whiteface overlooking the gorgeous Au Sable. The weather became crystal clear. Since this was my first time in the area, I decided to do a loop that day up through Jay (where there is ...

... Tupper Lake and the Raquette River were spectacular as the clouds began to clear out. I stopped to visit the beautiful new nature center and the old Jewish cemetery and synagogue in Tupper Lake. Then on through Saranac Lake and then to Lake Placid.

... magic. the brewery tour wasn't super-exciting, since the bottling line isn't in action on saturdays. we did see the fermenting room (where they use a strain of english yeast that's a couple of hundred years old), complete with foamy vats and a brewer or two poking around. the sampling bar was ok, but the barkeeps stopped paying attention to me before i got to try everything. i'm now inspired, though ...

... d like to get some books and other reusable resources together and hopefully ship them over before we leave. I'd personally like to gather some donated soccer gear to provide to the students. So if anyone has any supplies they would like to donate let us know! Thanks for all the support guys! We surely couldn't do this without the support of our family and friends. Hopefully I'll be updating this regularly before we leave as well as while we are in Tanzania. Cheers! Damien

... s leg. It wasn't very big but did need stitches so Lex and her sister took Michelle to the emergency place. Michelle told me to stay and have fun so I did! Me, Jamie and a couple of other of Lex's friends went to a bar called Mad Hatters where we met up with some other friends and just hung out for a while. We later cabbed back to Lex's and went to bed and Michelle and that didn't get home till around 5:30am and they went there at 1am. But other than that it was a great ...

... to though =( so we headed out with Carlos to find the underground stores and village and everything. We finally found it and then split up with Carlos and started shopping. we ended up going into one store FOREVER to look for jeans. by then i was already getting a little exhausted. We ate in the food court, i had some yummy souvlaki. shopped a little more, got some coffee, shopped some more. I was def getting a little frustrated. I REALLY didn't want to be ...

... St. which was PACKED with places to go out...AND eat at! So we found a few places we could go out to but realized it was only like 9pm so decided to go to a cafe and chill for a bit and wait an hour or so until we went into the bar. Simala was in love with the guy that worked at the cafe. HAHAHA. so at like 10:30 we finally left the cafe to find a place to go to. We went to Thursday's. which was FUN! It reminded us a lot of Cheers. A TON of different people ...