civilized ku # 2483-89 ~ here, there, and everywhere - a travelogue of sorts

St Mary of the Snows ~ Otter Lake, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Curling Club ~ Rochester, NY - not in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenLunch with Luke and Peter ~ Rochester, NY • click to embiggen
# 87, the best hockey player in the world ~ Uniondale, Long Island / NY • click to embiggen
The Penguins beat the Islanders ~ Nassau Coliseum - Uniondale / Long Island, NY • click to embiggen
Socrates - the dick sucker ~ Queens, NY • click to embiggen
Harvest Spirits Distillery ~ Valatie, NY • click to embiggenJust in case you're wondering why I haven't posted an entry in the past 7 days, the main reason is a road trip of 1,700 miles in 5 days.

I left Au Sable Forks last Wednesday AM on my way to Rochester. I passed through Otter Lake where I pictured, just after a fresh snowfall, St. Mary of the Snow, a church I attended as kid on summer Sundays when vacationing in the Adirondacks.

After arriving in Rochester, I hooked up with my brother Peter who had flown in from Tennessee for 5 day visit with old friends. We had a quick bite to eat and then went to our brother Luke's curling match, after which we sat around the club's pub and yakked.

Thursday morning Peter and I met for donuts, coffee and more yakity yak. Then we both went on to lunch with Luke, after which I bugged out for the return trip to Au Sable Forks. I arrived in time to put my head on my own pillow.

Friday morning it was time for a re-pack and back in the car to head to Long Island for an evening hockey game. Despite our best intentions to arrive in the NYC area before the rush hour madness, due to an unscheduled stop for a surprise visit with Hugo's brother, we arrived on the New Jersey side of the George Washington bridge at the peak of the rush hour commute. That made for what seemed like an interminable drive out to Long Island. Fortunately, the Penguins beat the Islanders making it all worth while.

Then it on into Queens for an overnight stay.

Saturday was spent in and around Queens and a lunch with assorted family members (the wife's family) who live in the general area. After a short post-lunch visit to a playground so Hugo and his cousins could work off some energy (and where I learnt that Socrates is a dick sucker- see picture), it was off to North Jersey for a dinner and overnight stay with the wife's sister and family.

On Sunday, much to my chagrin (hey, does it look like I'm driving a f**king taxi?), it was back to Queens and then, finally, back on the road to home. Along the way we took a break to visit a distillery near Albany, NY. The distillery makes a really fine applejack as well as an interesting American variation on grappa. I left with a bottle of each and Hugo left with cinnamon donuts from the distillery's apple orchard store.

We arrived home just in time to watch the Penguins defeat the evil Philadelphia Flyers, after which I collapsed into bed to sleep the sleep of the well and truly tired.

What about Monday - Wednesday of this week? I'm working on a picture making assignment which has me driving around to various locations. Thank goodness they are all within a 20 mile radius of home because I am getting rather tired of sitting at the steering wheel of a car.

Comments

[John Linn]

Good to hear from you... I was begging to wonder.

St Mary of the Snows is a wonderful picture.