Brief Synopsis
Just a quick overview of the events of my glorious week away from here. We left out of here on Sunday afternoon about 3 p.m. after my dad got off of work. In total we were looking at about 1200 miles. Our plans were to drive all the way though and get there sometime Sunday afternoon. The drive up was fairly uneventful; we did have to stop about every hundred miles to refill the water in my dad’s truck. It has a large crack in the block which causes it to leak the water, which he couldn’t get fixed before we left. Other than that it was a long drive, we all rotated the drive time between the three of us. We goy up there at about 1 or 2 Monday afternoon, which wasn’t bad time wise. Once we got up there we spent the day unloading and trying to patch the truck as best we could. That evening I seen my cousins that I had not seen in sometime. We ate dinner then played some cards and off to bed. On Tuesday we went and picked up the kayaks, this proved to be a very aggravating experience for me. I had forgotten how bad my mom can get on my nerves. Perhaps it is because I have gotten older and understand more of what is going on but she finds that one button and continuously mashed it the entire time I was there. It got so bad that I decided not to give any input as to what was happening or going on while we were on our trip. Got myself in trouble a couple of times with my wise-ass comments, so I decided it best to keep my mouth shut. I will get into more of how my mother jumped on my nerve latter. That could be a long, long blog. Anyways, we put the kayaks in the water later that afternoon at Sylvan Beach. This was a little stream that emptied into Oneida Lake. From my point of view it wasn’t all that great. It was flat water with very little current. It did however provide my parents a good learning experience. They had never been in a kayak before and was a good starting place. We finished out our little trip and went back to the house. Wednesday we headed up to Salmon River. This had some white water something that we had never done before. We stopped and looked at the river and it didn’t look bad so we gave it a shot. It was shallow in quite a few spots which made it difficult to get over some of the larger rocks. Me and Heather made it down it down without incident. My parents flipped their kayak once but we all had a blast. It was a long ride, took us about four hours. Not really sure how many miles it actually was, I haven’t broke down and bought a GPS yet. We packed up and headed back we were suppose to meet my cousin at his house for dinner. Thursday rolled around and the weather wasn’t looking all that great. We were supposed to take the kayaks back before too late so that we could head out for Niagara. We decided to kayak a small creek that was close to the house. This was Chittenango Creek and will constitute an entire blog entry in and of its self. This is the one we suffered some injury on after flipping and floating down stream for some time. Perhaps I will write more about this tomorrow. After that fiasco we went back to nurse our wounds while my father and uncle returned the kayaks. Once they got back we started the three hour drive over to Niagara. Once we finally got over there and found a hotel and ate we headed to the boarder. We crossed over and viewed the falls at night with their colorful illumination. It was a good little hike especially with banged up knees and shins. As always the sheer power associate with all of that moving water was absolutely impressive. I had been there before and it was still amazing. After walking all the way down to Horseshoe Falls (the big one on the Canadian side) we turned back around and headed to the hotel (more on this in the aggravating mother story). The next morning we headed out, we had to do the souvenir thing and we wanted to go back to the falls for a couple of hours. This time we didn’t cross the boarder and stayed on the US side at the national park. Needless to say this was another impressive day just looking at that falls; I got some really awesome shots of the US falls and the river. After having our fill of everything Niagara had to offer we headed back. We stopped off at this huge outlet mall; I spent way to much money but got some much needed clothes. We finally got back and then started getting packed for our departure Saturday. We got loaded and were ready by about noon. I needed to go to Radio Shack and pick up a piece for my headphones. We stopped and got my part and then ate lunch and headed for the interstate. We had planned on stopping for the night but decided to go ahead and drive all night long. The patch that my dad applied to the truck held and helped to speed our return trip. We did make an unscheduled stop at my grandmothers which kinda’ aggravated me (another mother incident) but she hadn’t seen her in about 3 months and she isn’t doing too hot right now. We were back at home by noon, which was really good time. All in all I had a good time with the exception of my mother it was a great trip.
More to come…
- Larry
More to come…
- Larry
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