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We are at the Kaatskill Mountain Club this week. This is our very first time in this part of the world. (I've already decided that we have to come back...I've got a list going for next time!) How do you decide what to do?
I confess that I'm a planner. I try to leave "margin" space in our week for those spur-of-the-moment things, but at heart...I like to know what's coming. The rain this week messed up my plans a little, but we still got most of my ideas in.
I tend to use trip advisor, google, the Gazetteer (a very detailed map of the state we'll be visiting), and then the brochures we pick up at rest stops. I also ask (to the embarrassment of my children!) "what one thing should we not miss?" to people at the grocery store or gas stations.
Then we build our list, our plan B list, and go from there.
We've had an Explore Tannersville day, a Thrift Stores up and down the Hudson River day, a trip to the Thomas Cole NHS (nobody would do the Hudson River Sky Walk with me!), and then today, we went up to Albany to see the Schuyler Mansion and the NYS Museum. I have a Hamilton fan, so she was in heaven at the thought of standing where dear Alexander got married.
For next time, Olana, Bronck Museum, the Albany Institute of Art and History, maybe the WWII destroyer that's on the Hudson. Always leave things to see when we come this way again, I suppose!
I confess that I'm a planner. I try to leave "margin" space in our week for those spur-of-the-moment things, but at heart...I like to know what's coming. The rain this week messed up my plans a little, but we still got most of my ideas in.
I tend to use trip advisor, google, the Gazetteer (a very detailed map of the state we'll be visiting), and then the brochures we pick up at rest stops. I also ask (to the embarrassment of my children!) "what one thing should we not miss?" to people at the grocery store or gas stations.
Then we build our list, our plan B list, and go from there.
We've had an Explore Tannersville day, a Thrift Stores up and down the Hudson River day, a trip to the Thomas Cole NHS (nobody would do the Hudson River Sky Walk with me!), and then today, we went up to Albany to see the Schuyler Mansion and the NYS Museum. I have a Hamilton fan, so she was in heaven at the thought of standing where dear Alexander got married.
For next time, Olana, Bronck Museum, the Albany Institute of Art and History, maybe the WWII destroyer that's on the Hudson. Always leave things to see when we come this way again, I suppose!