Our "vacation" continues. On Monday mid-morning we headed up to Watkins Glen and had lunch in a little GermanSwiss winery high on the slopes overlooking Seneca Lake, and then toured around a bit seeing two of the beautiful waterfalls in the area.Today we vacated Corning and in Hammondsport saw the excellent Glenn Curtiss Museum. Curtiss teamed with Bell and McCurdy on a number of aerial experiment including the silver Dart at Baddeck. In Hammondsport he started the Curtiss Co. which at its peak had ten thousand employees in
the U.S. and Canada. building Curtiss JN-4's . On display were two recently built replicas of planes of over ninety years ago and it was fastinating to watch videos of these two planes taking off, flying, and landing on nearby Keuka Lake in 2006 and 2008. Curtiss was a man of speed and made records for the bicycle in his teens, and held the record for the fastest man on earth with his motorcycle in the twenties. The AAA listed museum also has beautiful boats, motorcycles and dollhouses on display and an interesting collection of Civil War artifacts. I give it a ten.The Village of Hammondsport is a quiet, restful little place and the central square is not unlike Niagara-on-the-Lake though much smaller. A very busy railroad used to bring tourists here for boat tours of Lake Keuka.
This afternoon we scouted NY Rte 19, the route for the next three days of walking and were happy to find very few hills. Tonight in Wellsville. Recent weather? Two days ago record highs of over 90F, tonight down to the mid 30'sF. Tomorrow low 60s are predicted - ideal again for walking.Pictures:
One of the beautiful waterfalls near Seneca Lake
An early airplane model at the Curtiss Museum
A moose outside a chocolate shop in Hammondsport
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