Cornell to Cooperstown

Slept very well. Maybe it was last night's great meal. Maybe it was a full, long day. Maybe it was just that I am really content being a tourist. Whatever it was I wasn't awake until after 7am and not up until 8 am! Wow!!!

Ithaca is an University town and we started the day, after we had eaten a nice breakfast, by going for a drive around Cornell University http://www.cornell.edu/visiting/ithaca/ What a great looking place to study. Even the drive up there was interesting, though it looked like an Eurobodalla Shire road in places

But I guess it's acceptable when the town was settled by Europeans in 1789 and this road is leading to the University which was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell as a co-educational institution. Cornell, which has around 20,000 students, looks just like you would expect an Ivy League University to.

And as nice as that the built environment looks, you drive about 400 metres and you find

  

This is a really nice place........ but we had a long way to go today.

As we were leaving Ithaca we happened on a great place that anyone who enjoys apples should visit  http://hort.cals.cornell.edu/cals/hort/about/about_orchards.cfm We walked away with 5 different types of that we had never tasted as well as a bottle of Maple Mustard. Mmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

We and Mrs Garmin decided we need to have an interesting drive and apart from about 20 minutes on a 4 lane highway the day was spent on rural roads where we saw some of the best farmland and some most interesting displays...........................

 It was Easter after all!!! 

It wasn't a long drive in distance travelled but the nature of the roads made it slow going and there were reasons for driving slowly. It's not often you have to out look for....

 As some may be aware both Julie and I have a great love of sports our next stop was at a small town in New York State called Cooperstown http://www.thisiscooperstown.com/. Cooperstown with a population of around 2000 and one traffic light isn't the reason why we and many others choose to visit this town. You see, Cooperstown is the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame and as sports lovers we wanted to see this shrine to one of America's favourite sports.

We didn't have the time to fully appreciate the National Baseball Hall of Fame http://baseballhall.org/ It is fabulous in the way it chronicles the history of Baseball. The displays show all of the sport's great stars and great moments as well as giving easy to absorb information. But, Baseball like Cricket, is a sport that thrives on facts and figures and while we didn't have enough time to fully explore them it was fun to try.

From Cooperstown it was a 30 minute drive to our destination for the night, Litttle Falls..