We picked up a hire car at New York JFK airport and headed up into New England and New York State. We'd no real plans on where to go but after chatting to locals and other tourists we decided to swing up through the New England states and then end up at Niagara Falls.
Great wooded hilly countryside, with some pretty weatherboard villages.
Our first covered bridge. Apparnetly they put the roofs on to make the bridge last longer - 15 years without or 75 years with a roof keeping the supports dry from above.
Stopped at place in the hills called Hancock, real small town stuff, there I braved a haircut at Jerrys, he's been cutting the hair of the townsfolk for over 50 years in the same shop. Top guy.
Over the next couple of days we worked our way up to Niagara Falls. Stopping on Grand Island, about 5 miles above the falls on the American side, before driving up on Friday to see the falls themselves.
It was so cold the mist from the falls was freezing onto whatever it landed.
Pretty amazing though, nowhere near as high as the falls in Washington at only 176 feet but still very impressive.
About 90% of the water flow goes down the Canadian side of Goat island that splits the falls into the two parts. The buildings in the mist are in Canada, the viewing platforms were closed due to the ice build-up.
Too cold to hang about for long so we are planning on following, roughly, a route suggested by a chap in a bar next to Jerry's Barbers and head off towards the Adirondack Mountains and Lake Placid before returning to New York.
Great wooded hilly countryside, with some pretty weatherboard villages.
Our first covered bridge. Apparnetly they put the roofs on to make the bridge last longer - 15 years without or 75 years with a roof keeping the supports dry from above.
Stopped at place in the hills called Hancock, real small town stuff, there I braved a haircut at Jerrys, he's been cutting the hair of the townsfolk for over 50 years in the same shop. Top guy.
Over the next couple of days we worked our way up to Niagara Falls. Stopping on Grand Island, about 5 miles above the falls on the American side, before driving up on Friday to see the falls themselves.
It was so cold the mist from the falls was freezing onto whatever it landed.
Pretty amazing though, nowhere near as high as the falls in Washington at only 176 feet but still very impressive.
About 90% of the water flow goes down the Canadian side of Goat island that splits the falls into the two parts. The buildings in the mist are in Canada, the viewing platforms were closed due to the ice build-up.
Too cold to hang about for long so we are planning on following, roughly, a route suggested by a chap in a bar next to Jerry's Barbers and head off towards the Adirondack Mountains and Lake Placid before returning to New York.
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