Road Trip!
I happen to be really bad at journals, but because I am pretty sure this is going to be a super packed weekend, I'm going to post everything here!
Wednesday - We left really late, around 3 and simply drove to Hammondsport, NY. Woo. Went up through Canada.
Thursday - Got up early, and went to the Glenn Curtiss Museum outside of Hammondsport. He was one of the first people to build flying machines, and was actually in a huge legal battle with the Wright brothers. We spent about three hours there, I got a little slinky and an awesome motercycle magnet. We drove up to the finger lakes, and went to a winery on Lake Keuka, and had a wine tasting. My parents got me two bottles from the Bully Hill Vineyards, the American Reisling and the Ravat 51. I'm not a huge fan of red wines, they tend to taste too much like an ashtray to me. I also don't like New York native grapes. After that we had lunch at their restaurant, which included an appetizer of Brie and fruit compote and a tropical salad with grilled shrimp. It was damn tasty. A woman came in with her son, who had turned 21 on June 3, and we chatted a bit.
After lunch we were supposed to just hit the road, but we went to another vineyard, Dr. Konstantin Frank, who was the guy who introduced European grapes to Finger Lake vineyards. I didn't like most of them, too dry or bland. But I did enjoy the Gewurztraminer, and got a bottle of that. Much driving later, and two driver changes, towards the end of New York and the beginning of Massachussetts we hit the most aweful weather. It was a torrential downpour, and we had to drive kinda slow. Eventually we got to Ed's apartment, where my parents dropped me off (I'm staying with Ed and Liz so I can actually get sleep, and well dang, it's more fun!). And now I am hanging out with their kitty Em, named Ementhal after the cheese, because they already went to bed. Which is what I am about to do.
More travel excitment to come!
Wednesday - We left really late, around 3 and simply drove to Hammondsport, NY. Woo. Went up through Canada.
Thursday - Got up early, and went to the Glenn Curtiss Museum outside of Hammondsport. He was one of the first people to build flying machines, and was actually in a huge legal battle with the Wright brothers. We spent about three hours there, I got a little slinky and an awesome motercycle magnet. We drove up to the finger lakes, and went to a winery on Lake Keuka, and had a wine tasting. My parents got me two bottles from the Bully Hill Vineyards, the American Reisling and the Ravat 51. I'm not a huge fan of red wines, they tend to taste too much like an ashtray to me. I also don't like New York native grapes. After that we had lunch at their restaurant, which included an appetizer of Brie and fruit compote and a tropical salad with grilled shrimp. It was damn tasty. A woman came in with her son, who had turned 21 on June 3, and we chatted a bit.
After lunch we were supposed to just hit the road, but we went to another vineyard, Dr. Konstantin Frank, who was the guy who introduced European grapes to Finger Lake vineyards. I didn't like most of them, too dry or bland. But I did enjoy the Gewurztraminer, and got a bottle of that. Much driving later, and two driver changes, towards the end of New York and the beginning of Massachussetts we hit the most aweful weather. It was a torrential downpour, and we had to drive kinda slow. Eventually we got to Ed's apartment, where my parents dropped me off (I'm staying with Ed and Liz so I can actually get sleep, and well dang, it's more fun!). And now I am hanging out with their kitty Em, named Ementhal after the cheese, because they already went to bed. Which is what I am about to do.
More travel excitment to come!