From June 10th-14th I headed out on a road trip thru NY, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Montreal, Canada. Over the last two months, I’ve talked about most of the places I visited. Here is a full recap of the trip. SUNDAY I headed out on the road, for the most mileage of any day (and the …
Whiteface Mountain, home of skiing in the 1980 Winter Olympics, and the redone Veterans Memorial Highway. The mountaintop is the fifth highest in New York, and the long winding 5-mile highway offers scenic stops all the way up, as it covers 2,300 feet vertically. Once at the top of the road you have to hike …
The Lake Placid Olympic Center is at the heart of Lake Placid NY, and is one of the more historic sites in Team USA lore. The building is home to the ice rink from the Miracle on Ice when the US Men’s Hockey Team defeated the Soviets in one of the greatest upsets in sports history. …
The Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex, located at Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid NY, was the home for a large part of the 1980 Winter Olympics. Lake Placid was the only bid for the Olympic games, and from the top of the Olympic Sports Complex (OSC) you can see all the sites for the …
I quickly discovered when looking for hotels on this trip was that Country Inn & Suites, my hotel of choice, didn’t have locations in the Northeast…so I turned to Google to help find a hotel and discovered a Best Western in the area I was heading towards. This was how I ended up at my …
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