Cooperstown, Niagara, and a long danged drive

Right now it seems like so long ago, but on Tuesday while wending our way toward Ohio for our last two games, we stopped over in Cooperstown, New York where you can find the National Baseball Hall of Fame. We wished we'd had more time to spend in the town because it seemed like a cool community with lots of cute little shops and other attractions in addition to the Hall of Fame.

I should mention that the TomTom gps that Steph and Kris gave me for my birthday has done an EXCELLENT job getting us around so we've depended completely on it. We changed it from my kids' preference of Tim, the British dude who says cool stuff like, "...then enter the motorway..." to Samantha, the American computer voice, because it's the only one that reads out loud a lot of detail while navigating. We question a bit the route Samantha took us through to get to Cooperstown. It seemed kinda backroady, despite her assertion that she takes us the fastest way possible. The good thing was we went through some BEAUTIFUL countryside and I found a very small New York town west of Albany called Schenevus. It looked like the type of town where you could go to if you wanted to disappear from your old life and start over, like in that Julia Roberts "Sleeping with the Enemy" movie. Oops. Now you'll all know where to find me should that ever happen.

Here's a few photos from the HOF:



Sorry about the lame formatting but this website is not very user-friendly in that regard. That last photo shows a Quad City Swing duffel bag that was used in the movie "Sugar" which was filmed a bit in Davenport. I haven't seen it yet but it was made by the same people who did "Half-Nelson" which is another good well-regarded sports film.

On Wednesday we made another non-baseball stop in Niagara Falls. I've been there a few times, but Kristina has never seen them. We got to view the New York side American Falls and Bridal Veil before it rained. Have we mentioned it's rained this year? A lot?



Then there was a 7 hour drive to Cincinnati where we've been able to stay put for almost a whole day now. Our hotel is right on the Ohio riverfront. We're actually in Kentucky but can see the Cincinnati downtown where there are lots of sporting venues and lots of fun things to do. We've been happy with Cincy - it's friendly, safe-feeling, easy and cheap to get around. Maybe still tonight we'll get to posting about the Reds game today. I can hear thunder outside. What a surprise.