Daily Archives: July 17, 2009
Peekskill and the Hudson River Valley…
Today Jan and I drove the 30 miles over to Peekskill, NY to get to a larger town nearer to New York City. We wanted to go by a motel or someplace that had a brochure rack that had a lot of stuff for New York City. The places around here had more things for this area and not a lot for New York.
And we hit the jackpot. So now we have plenty of stuff to look over to help plan for Brandi and Piper’s arrival tomorrow.
Heading back we came across the Cortlandt Colonial Restaurant, and liking the look of the place, decided to stop for lunch. And it was a good choice. Beautiful restaurant, excellent food, and good service. What more can you ask for?
Coming home we stopped at a scenic pullout and took pictures of the Hudson River Valley below us.
Hudson River Valley 1
Hudson River Valley 2
This is the place the Americans stretched a 600 yard, 65 ton chain across the river to prevent the British from sailing up the river during the Revolutionary War. It was a great idea, but the British never tried to break the chain. They just captured the forts on either side and removed the chain. Although I guess it really didn’t do them any good in the long run.
Later this afternoon, I set out all of our menagerie of flamingos, pelicans, moose, cats, and other assorted items in preparation for tomorrow’s arrival.
More tomorrow…
