Day 2, Thursday, Sept. 24th
Left the hotel at 7:30 and spent driving through Ohio and up into New York
along Lake Erie to our destination of Watertown, New York.
Watertown is home to the safety pin, has the largest continually running county fair in the USA, is the smallest city to have a park designed by Frederick Olmsted who designed Central Park in NYC. Watertown is located 31 miles south of Canada.
Day 3, Friday, Sept. 25th
Today we drove through the countryside of Upstate New York. The leaves were at peak color. Gasoline was $2.79 to $2.89 a gallon. Passed Buffalo, NY on I90, they have bronze statues of buffalo grazing on the hillside.We arrived in Lake Placid, had lunch and then met our tour guide.Had a guided tour of the Lake Placid area including the site of the 1932 and 1980 Olympics. Lake Placid is a quaint town nestled in the Adirondack Mountains. It’s surrounded by mountain peaks and lakes with Mirror Lake located in downtown Lake Placid. I rode the chair lift to the top of the hill, then took an elevator 8 stories up and finally climbed 2 flights of steps to the top of the ski jump where the starting gate is. My legs and knees were shaking as I took pictures from there. We were 26 stories up. What a view but I couldn't wait to get down to level ground! We also watched them practice their jumps and flips down a couple of ski jumps, landing in a swimming pool. They use the facility all year round. Also saw the Jack Shea Stadium Olympic skating rink and saw the Russian pairs couple who won in 1980, Irina Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaitsev. They were out on the ice practicing. The tour guide told us he's 70. We saw the speed skating oval where Eric Heiden won five gold medals. We spent the night in Lake Placid.
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