Where are they now?

We left Western New York on Sunday the 23rd via the back roads what a beautiful drive. The road goes through small towns and endless farmland and you see the occasional Amish horse buggy. We stayed the night at a Walmart in Glenville New York and continued on the next day to Dummerston Vermont where we’ll lay over for 4 days to plan the trip to Maine. We would like to Workamp in Maine and stay until October but we are not having much luck finding work so Maine is a question mark. We went out exploring Vermont today what a beautiful place. Our first stop was the Robb Family Farm established in 1907 as a dairy farm and converted to Maple Syrup and Hay in 2011. Wow once you have farm fresh Maple Syrup you can’t go back to store bought. Very nice people nice tour, look them up online if your in South Eastern Vermont. Next we went to the cover bridge in Dummerston Vermont, built in the early 1800’s.

The bucket above is old school and the spike and tube is how its done today.

Niagara Falls.

This is our final day at Niagara Falls and we wanted to stay until night-time so we could see the falls illuminated and watch the fireworks. We also went on the Maid of the Mist Boat Tour to the base of the Horseshoe Falls and The Cave of the Winds tour at the base of the Bridal Falls. We would highly recommend doing these two things if you go to Niagara Falls USA.Maid of the Mist-1Maid of the Mist-1-2American Falls-1Cave of the Winds-1-4Cave of the Winds-1-3Niagara Falls-1Cave of the Winds-1-2Cave of the Winds-1American Falls-1-2Niagara Falls-1-2

Near the State Park Visitors Center they have the Great Lakes Garden.

More Niagara Falls.

The Culinary Institute of Niagara Falls has a self guided tour and within its building it has a fine dinning restaurant, a New York style deli, pastry shop, and wine tasting. We decided to eat lunch at the deli it was very good and affordable.Niagara Falls-1-3Niagara Falls-1-4

Hot Capicola melt with chips and pickle. Tasted better than picture looks.

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Aquarium of Niagara Falls.

This was not much of an aquarium and our first clue was it smelled like a fish market as soon as you open the door. The variety is poor, I’ve been fish stores that were more interesting.

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Niagara Falls.

Growing up I remember hearing about these Daredevils going over the falls in a barrel so when we were at the Visitors Center and the opportunity presented itself to go over the falls in a barrel we couldn’t resist.

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We also visited the Schoellkopf Power Station 3 Complex located at the Discovery Center. The Power Station was built between 1904 and 1924. In June of 1956 3/4’s of the station was destroyed by rockslides. One employee Richard Draper died in this event.

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You enter the station at the top and take an elevator to the bottom of the gorge.

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Four tunnels where the water from the generators exited the station.

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The view from the bottom of the gorge, to the left you can see part of the Horseshoe Falls.

Niagara Hartland RV Resort.

This is the campground we’ve been staying at for the last week and we have 1 more week here. We have enjoyed our stay here and would recommend this campground to anyone who is in Western New York to see Niagara Falls. Its a nice 40 minute drive through New York’s farm land to Niagara Falls, Lewiston, and about 15 minutes to Lockport where the Erie Canal is. The campground has a little 8 acre lake for catch and release fishing and canoeing, guinea hens running around the campground, many different birds, and at night Fire Flies. Below are some photos of the campgrounds.

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Rafting Trip

We had never been on a rafting trip, so being that we’re waiting for the Going To The Sun Road to open we decide to take one. We signed up for a nine mile rafting trip followed by dinner by the river. Wild River Adventures in West Glacier Montana put on a great trip and they were very accommodating. They really go the extra mile to make sure everyone has a great experience. The dinner choices were Steak, Salmon, or Chicken with baked potato, salad, roll, and desert. We had so much fun I think we’ll do another rafting trip in the future but on a river with bigger whitewater rapids. The photos below were purchased from the Photographer provided by Wild River Adventures. We had hope to post a video of the adventure but we had some technical issues with the new waterproof action video/camera we purchased for the trip.

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It was so much fun to hear Darla behind me hootin and hollerin as we went through the whitewater.

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Too much fun, instant smile.

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The water temperature was thirty-nine degrees. Refreshing as it was eighty-seven degrees on the river.

Two Medicine Boat Tour.

The boat tour was a lot of fun. The boat is an old wooden boat where all windows open so anyone could take a photo without shooting through a window. They let four people at a time out on the bow to take photos. The hike to Twin Falls was about two miles round trip with only seventy-five feet elevation gain. Very nice time.

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