New York

  • New York

    New York City

    November 20, 2014 - By 

    Before entering Chicago, we had the fortune of dropping off Scromp in the burbs.  I was hoping we would have the same sort of luck during our stay in the city…perhaps a friend or friend of a friend who lived in the outskirts of NYC would have been kind enough to take in Scromp while we toured NYC. Instead, a friend told me the story of the time when he spent a summer camping on Long Island.  “There’s this free parking lot under the freeway bridge in Brooklyn on Meeker and Graham,” he wrote to me.  “I slept in that parking lot…

  • New York

    Niagara Falls

    November 18, 2014 - By 

    Rather than driving across the painfully wide state of Pennsylvania straight to New York City, we opted for a shorter route north into New York for a glimpse of Niagara Falls.   I had visited Niagara Falls with my family almost 15 years ago during the summer, and I couldn’t wait to hear the power of water and gravity again.  Horseshoe Falls, American Falls, and Bridal Veil Falls make up the Niagara Falls that flow between the international border of Ontario, Canada and New York, U.S.A.  The water flow of the combined falls is the strongest of any waterfall anywhere in the…