The first week: Massachusetts to Kansas
This entry was posted on 10/30/2006 10:20 PM and is filed under XCountry.
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We left Massachusetts to New York to check out the Finger lakes region and Niagara Falls. Highlights included wineries, lakes, and a really cool waterfall called Taughenock Falls. It was a little cold, but great to check it out with nobody else around.
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| Taughenock falls is said to be higher than Niagra, and I didn't believe it. I mean, Anna's like 5' 5" so you can see this joke of a waterfall is only like 15 feet high. What a let-down. |
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Ahh, here's a great shot from Niagra. It's so much bigger than Taughanock. It was suprising how dirty the American Falls was in comparison to the Canadian side. If you head up there definitely check out the Canucks. They really know what's going on. *This shot isn't from the Canadian side, however.
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| We visited my friend Andrea in Ann Arbor and dressed up like pirates and checked out a party with a punk band. (Tom was Elizabeth Swan... we made him wear the dress). The party was ok but the band made Tom want to shoot himself in the neck. |
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Then it was off to Indiana to say hello to Marvin and Eleanor. We learned about caning and the art of making your own maple syrup. We also learned that you can freeze milk, and that you should never boil maple syrup in the house. Hopefully Marvin and Eleanor get their plans together for that squirrell catapault we laughed so much about... we're really looking forward to it. |
| And then through Missouri and Kansas. We favored the backroads... and were rewarded with views of silos, large farm equipment, and field after field of corn and soybeans. Of course there was also the dizzyingly curvy and hilly roads. No, wait, that's someplace else altogether. I've never seen roads so straight and flat... it's kinda neat. |
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They've got these really huge grain harvesting machines out here. They don't go very fast but they are huge. Check out the size of that SUV next to it. Sorry Johnny, you can't have one. |
| This was a cool shot we took from the side of the road out in the middle of Kansas. They've got all these windmills that seem to mostly power small mills and pumps and things. Or stills. |
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