Thousand Islands & Boldt Castle
Photos Taken October 2011 From my experience, few people are aware that The Thousand Islands refers to an actual place and not just salad dressing. The area in question is between Ontario and New York, along the St. Lawrence River and the uppermost section of Lake Ontario. The...
Biodome de Montreal
Photos taken October 2011 Waaaaaaay back in high school, some of us took a 4-day trip to Quebec, with sightseeing in both Montreal and Quebec City, and I always wanted to go back. So for our 2011 fall trip, we decided to combine two of our proposed vacation...
Fort Ticonderoga
Photos taken October 2011 Fort Ticonderoga, if even mentioned in any of your US History textbooks, was probably briefly brought up for a sentence or two in a chapter about the American Revolution. The fort was actually built by the French during the French & Indian War (or...
Walt’s Filling Station
Photos taken October 2011 Another discovery through geocaching. We stopped here on the way home from our Quebec/New York trip. This may look like a gas station from the 1950’s, but this is really the side yard of someone’s home in Hallstead. Vintage soda machines, signs, and gas...
East Village Rock n’ Roll Tour
Photos from November 2011 I laugh whenever anyone says history classes are boring, because I’ve taken some really cool and unusual ones, case in point The History of Rock n’ Roll. Yes, I swear that was a real class, and an excellent one at that. For a class...