Schenectady, New York

Wednesday, Oct. 7th, we left Niagara Falls and drove to Schenectady, New York, arriving late in the day.
Thursday, Oct. 8th, we drove the car north into the Adirondack Mountains.  The fall foliage was beautiful

We drove up to Jay to see the covered bridge.

From there we drove to Lake Champlain.  We were in New York looking across at Vermont on the other side.

Friday, Oct. 9, it was raining and we decided to drive over to Vermont to check out a few more covered bridges.  The Paper Mill Bridge was built in 1889.

The Henry Bridge was built in 1840.

The Silk Road Bridge was built about 1840.

After the bridges, we drove to the Bennington Monument.

We also toured the Hemmings Motor News Museum.  The guys really enjoyed that!

Even though it was a rainy day, we enjoyed it very much and were able to see some interesting sights.

Saturday, Oct. 10, we just hung out, doing laundry and watching the OU vs Texas game.  That was a bummer since we lost!  At least we had a good view from our spot in the campground.

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Howard and Danny fished a little after the game.  It was catch and release only, but they both caught a couple of fish.

Sunday, Oct. 11, we drove south to Red Hook, New York, to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Airshow.  This was the last show of the year and the weather was perfect.  www.oldrhinebeck.org/

It is one of the largest collections of early aircraft in the world.  We enjoyed the show very much.

Niagara Falls

We arrived at Niagara Falls Sunday afternoon, October 4. Since it was later in the day, we decided to drive the short distance to Lake Ontario and Fort Niagara.  The fort had just closed for visitors when we arrived so we could not tour it. This is as close as we could get.

We enjoyed the area and viewed the replica of the Old Fort Niagara Lighthouse.

We could view the Toronto skyline from the shore of Lake Ontario.

We then drove over to the Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse at Golden Hill State Park.

Monday, we spent several hours touring the US side of Niagara Falls. We started off with the Maid of the Mist boat tour.  It took us very close to the falls.

They furnished us with ponchos to help keep us dry.  We still got a little wet, but it was fun. 

This is a picture of the boat we were on with a different group.

The falls are beautiful.  It was a cloudy day and the pictures didn't show the true beauty.

Here's a view from the observation tower.

Monday evening we watched the illimination of the falls for a while.  It was beautiful, but we were tired and did not stay until it was completely dark.

Tuesday morning we drove over to Canada to view the falls from that side.

They gave us ponchos again to view the falls at a close range on the Canadian side.  We drove around while in Canada and saw part of Fort Erie. We also drove down to view the gardens.  It was a wonderful 2 days spent at Niagara Falls.

We are on our way to Niagara Falls.

We have started on a new adventure and are heading to the northeast to see the sites and hopefully a lot of beautiful fall foliage.  We left home on Tuesday, Sept. 29 and are traveling with Becky's sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Danny.  We passed through St Louis, Missouri on Sept. 31 and saw The Gateway Arch. There was a lot of construction going on around it, so we did not tour it.

We stopped in Indianapolis, Indiana on Oct 1 to visit the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  It is full of a lot of history and was very interesting.