This up state college town (SUNY) in New York has about 14,000 population (census 2010), is 80 miles north of Grand Central station in midtown Manhattan (NYC).
It was formed in 1678 by a group of religious refugees from France, known as Huguenots, and seven homes are preserved, making up the Huguenot Street Historic District.
A Grateful Dead shop
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58 Main Street
New Paltz, NY 12561
This Vietnamese restaurant is spacious with high ceiling. The food is average, so is the service – college kids without much training (??). The floor tiles in the bathroom are pretty.
Upstate, NY
A beautiful park (200 miles hiking trails, 31 lakes numerous streams: total 47,527 acres/192 km2… bounded by Bear Mountain and the West Point), on a cloudy day.
The park was donated by Mary Averell Harriman (1851-1932), wife of E. H. Harriman (1848-1909), a financier and mother of Averell Harriman (1891-1986), a politician.
Averell had served many important posts, among them was governor of NY (1955-8). He also held ambassadorship from 1943 to 1946, first to USSR (1943-6) and then to UK (1946, April to October). It was during the war time era that he had an scandalous affair with the wife of Randolph Churchill (1911-68), the only son of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) who led UK to a win during the WWII.
We trekked from Reelves Meadow Visitor Center, anti clockwise, from the white mark to the peak, then blue, orange and red mark back to the parking lot. It’s less than 4 miles because we took the orange instead follow the blue mark to red. Although I enjoyed all the hike but the red is my fave: the entire walk was accompanied by the sound of water rushing. Is it Victoria Fall ha ha ha…
The parking lot was full when we got there at 9:13am. The center has a decent bathroom.
mushrooms and more mushrooms, the flying saucer
… the route to the peak …
… the climb …
Is it worth the effort?
…downhill to the red trail …
Averell 埃弗尔曾担任过许多重要职位,其中包括纽约州州长 (1955-8). 他还在 1943 年至 1946 年出任大使,先是苏联(1943-6), 然后是英国(1946, 4月至10月). 正是在二战期间,他与伦道夫
