SACKETS & HENDERSON HARBORS.... LAKE ONTARIO SOUTH SIDE END TO END...

LITERALLY HAVE WENT ALONG SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE ONTARIO, FROM THE WESTERN  FORT NIAGARA AREA IN BUFFALO TO NOW THE EASTERN MOST SACKET AND HENDERSON HARBORS NEAR WATERTOWN...

 

THE ENTRANCE TO THE ASSOCIATION KOA ISLAND IN HENDERSON HARBOR WAS BY FAR THE MOST IMPRESSIVE WE HAVE EVER SEEN AT ANY CAMPGROUND...  A LONG NARROW, ROCK SHIELDED SPIT OF LAND LEADS YOU TO THE ISLAND.  WHAT TREMENDOUS VIEWS, LEVEL FULL HOOKUPS AND GREAT WIFI!!! COULD STAY HERE A COUPLE OF MONTHS!!!

 

EPIC SUNSETS... AND ILEA ENJOYING OUR DINNER AT TIN PAN ALLEY RESTAURANT IN SACKET'S HARBOR... DESPITE HER PAINFUL KNEE BIKING INJURY...

ROCHESTER & CANANDAIGUA

 

WHILE IN ROCHESTER, DID A QUICK TRIP TO CHECK OUT CANANDAIGUA, AND WOW- VERY COOL DOCK WITH A VILLAGE OF BOAT HOUSES (WHERE SUPPOSEDLY ONLY BOATS CAN BE KEPT- BUT PEOPLE LIVING IN THERE TOO.)

 

COOL ICE CREAM WAFFLE CONE SEATS BELOW!

VISITED THE IMPRESSIVE GEORGE EASTMAN (KODAK FOUNDER) MANSION AND MUSEUM... TOUR KEPT CALLING HIM ELIGIBLE BACHELOR WHO NEVER MARRIED... BUT FAILED TO MENTION HE LIKELY WAS EITHER GAY OR ASEXUAL.  HE LOVED THE FLOWERS AND GARDENING, COOKING AND OVER THE TOP ADORATION FOR MOM- YET HE DID BIG GAME (LION, ELEPHANT, RHINO) HUNTING TO MASK HIS REALITY APPARENTLY.... HE DIED BY SELF INFLICTED GUN SHOT TO HIS HEART.

 

ALSO PICTURED IS THE ROCHESTER PIER AT THE PORT OF ROCHESTER.

 

AT THE MOUNT HOPE CEMETERY, THERE WERE MANY AWESOME ANCIENT GRAVE SITES... MOST NOTABLE WAS SUSAN B ANTHONY AND FREDRICK DOUGLAS (WHO ACTUALLY WERE FRIENDS FIGHTING FOR THE SAME GENERAL CAUSE...)

 

ABOVE IS THE ACTUAL FIREPLACE OF SUSAN B ANTHONY IN HER OFFICE IN HER HOUSE... BELOW IS A CREEPY SET UP AT THE RED'S TWILIGHT ON THE ERIE RV RESORT THAT WE STAYED AT WHILE IN ROCHESTER.

BUFFALO

 

NIAGARA FALLS... STILL LOOKING TERRIFIC SINCE WE LAST SAW IT IN 2001! BELOW IS A LITTLE TODDLER DARING TO CLIMB TO GET A BETTER VIEW.... AND THE MAID OF THE MIST... AS WELL AS A SMART LITTLE DUCK THAT CLAIMED A STEADY ROCK JUST A FEW YARDS AWAY FROM THE EDGE OF THE FALLS AS HIS REST SPOT.

 

WE GOT OUT TO THE FALLS BY 6AM AND CAUGHT THE SUN RISING THROUGH THE MISTS COMING OFF NIAGARA BELOW- FANTASTIC!

 

BELOW-IN BUFFALO IS AN HISTORIC HOME WHERE PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT WAS SWORN IN AFTER WM MCKINNLEY ASSASSINATION IN 1901. PLACE ON NATIONAL HISTORIC  LIST....

 

 

(ABOVE) SOME  CONCERNS AFTER SEEING THIS IN A MEN'S RESTROOM- PROGRESSIVE AREA IN NIAGARA FALLS AREA AS THIS FOOT WASH IS SPECIFICALLY PLACED FOR MUSLIM FAITH PEOPLES TO DO THEIR RELIGIOUS RITUALS (THERE IS NO SAND OR BEACHES AROUND HERE!!) MY SERIOUS CONCERN IS THAT BECAUSE IT IS PLACED IMMEDIATELY AS YOU WALK INTO RESTROOM, IT CAN POSSIBLY BE CONFUSED WITH A URINAL (NOT EVERYONE IS AWARE OF FOOT WASH RITUALS...)

BELOW-

VISITED THE OLD FORT NIAGARA IN NIAGARA FALLS..... PROBABLY THE SINGLE BEST FORT WE HAVE SEEN IN THE USA- LOCATED WHERE LAKE ONTARIO MEETS THE END OF THE NIAGARA RIVER...

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BELOW IS A FIRE PIT THAT THEY USED TO HEAT CANNON BALLS UNTIL THEY WERE RED HOT- THEN THEY IMMEDIATELY LOADED THEM INTO THE CANNON AND FIRED THEM OFF INTO THE WOODEN SHIPS WITH THE HOPE AND INTENTION THAT THEY WOULD SET FIRE TO THE ENEMY SHIPS!!

 

BELOW IS A COMMUNAL BED THAT THE SOLDIERS USED.

 

SKYLINE OF BUFFALO, AS SEEN FROM OUR FREEDOM CLUB BOAT

ERIE PA

 

BILL CAN NOT CONTAIN HIS EXCITEMENT WHEN HE FINDS OUT PARKING LAWS IN DOWNTOWN ERIE!!

 

ERIE PENNSYLVANIA ....  LUNCH AT THE SMUGGLERS WHARF.

 

THE FISHING PIER, LOCATED NEXT TO OUR CAMPGROUND ON LAKE ERIE.

 

EXCELLENT MARITIME MUSEUM HAD A GREAT DISPLAY OF CANNON BALL DAMAGES WHICH THEY REALLY DID ACTUALLY RE-CREATE!

PITTSBURGH!!??!

 

BIKE RIDING IN PITTSBURGH- ACROSS THE "HOT METAL BRIDGE" ABOVE, AND BELOW IS THE POINT STATE PARK

 

BELOW IS THE AWESOME CATHEDRAL OF LEARNING, WITH OVER 30 ROOMS DEDICATED TO INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES.... ILEA IS HAPPY IN THE UKRAINIAN ROOM.

 

BELOW IS THE STEEPEST ROAD IN THE USA- IN PITTSBURGH, CANTON AVE...  ALSO VISITED THE BICYCLE HEAVEN MUSEUM SHOP... VERY UNIQUE- HAD BIKES THAT HAD HAD TREES GROW AROUND THEM, BIKES THAT YOU POWER BY RAISING YOUR BUTT UP AND DOWN... THE BICYCLE BUILT FOR FOUR THAT THE MONKEES MUSIC GROUP RODE IN THEIR TV SHOW & MANY OTHER THINGS!

 

PEE WEE HERMAN'S BIKE FROM THE SHOW BELOW