The Hudson River.
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The Hudson River is a 315-mile (507 km) watercourse that flows from north to south through eastern New York State in theUnited States. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York. The river flows southward past the state capital at Albany and then eventually forms the boundary between New York City and the U.S. state of New Jersey at its mouth before emptying into Upper New York Bay. Its lower half is a tidal estuary, which occupies the Hudson Fjord. This formed during the most recent North American glaciation over the latter part of the Wisconsin Stage of the Last Glacial Maximum, 26,000 to 13,300 years ago. Tidal waters influence the Hudson's flow as far north as Troy, New York.
The river is named after Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company, who explored it in 1609. It had previously been observed by Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano sailing for King Francis I of France in 1524, as he became the first European known to have entered the Upper Bay, but he considered the river to be an estuary. The Dutch called the river the "North River" – with the Delaware River called the "South River" – and it formed the spine of the Dutch colony of New Netherland. Settlement of the colony clustered around the Hudson, and its strategic importance as the gateway to the American interior led to years of competition between the English and the Dutch over control of the river and colony.
During the eighteenth century, the river valley and its inhabitants were the subject and inspiration of Washington Irving, the first internationally acclaimed American author. In the nineteenth century, the area inspired the Hudson River School of landscape painting, an American pastoral style, as well as the concepts of environmental conservation and wilderness.
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The Susquehanna River (Lenape: Siskëwahane) is a river located in the northeastern United States. At 464 miles (747 km) long, it is the longest river on the American east coast that drains into the Atlantic Ocean, and with its watershed it is the 16th largest river in the United States, and the longest river in the continental United States without commercial boat traffic. It flows through three states:New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. It forms from two main branches, with the "North Branch", which rises in upstate New York, regarded by federal mapmakers as the main branch.The shorter West Branch, which rises in western Pennsylvania, joins the main stem near Northumberland in central Pennsylvania.
The river drains 27,500 square miles (71,000 km2), including nearly half of the land area of Pennsylvania. The drainage basin (watershed) includes portions of the Allegheny Plateau region of the Appalachian Mountains, cutting through water gaps in the lateral mountain ridges in a broad zigzagcourse to flow across the rural heartland of southeastern Pennsylvania and northeastern Maryland. The river empties into the northern end ofChesapeake Bay, providing half of the Bay's freshwater inflow. Chesapeake Bay is in fact the ria of the Susquehanna.
Our lunch stop. We stopped there on a whim, and it turned out very well. Mark had a steak salad, I got his blue cheese! I had a Gryo, Lon had fried chicken! It was great!
Being goofy waiting for lunch
Lon got an ice cream with his chicken
Drive by farms in New York
There are some interesting looking places
Our driver for the day! Well, most of it. I did drive for about 2 hours
We came up over a hill and saw this! WOW
Cows! We have not seen roadside cows in a while!
St Jude.
Cows on the horizon
Lake Erie!
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Lake Erie ( French: Lac Érié) is the fourth largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. It is bounded on the north by the Canadian province of Ontario, on the south by the U.S. states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, and on the west by the state of Michigan. The lake is named after the Erie tribe of Native Americans who lived along its southern shoreThe outflow from the lake provides hydroelectric power to Canada and the U.S. as it spins huge turbines at Niagara Falls.
Being a wind turbine
Dead Fish. For Uncle Jeffy. There was only one dead fish.
In the couple minutes we were on the shore of Lake Erie, getting our feet wet, we found more sea glass than we did the entire time we had in Niantic!
Mark asked a nice lady to take our photo. Mark looks great!
There was a playground and he just had to see if it was up to his standards!
We drove around looking at things, since it was about 6pm and there was not much open to go to! We had already found a hotel, it had almost all of our wants. No fridge, but it had wifi, a pool, and a tub.
This random Buffalo was just in someone's yard. How cool is that?
This is the child size pizza. Lon's meal consisted of a drink, pizza and ice cream. His meal was 4.95. We could have all split his pizza and had a decent meal!
Too bad we did not know it was going to be that big before we got it.
Then it was pool time!
Lon is happy because he is practicing his jumping in and doing it well.
Practicing his kicks.
Happy Boys!
Then it was time to get back to the room, re pack a few things and look forward to tomorrow. For the first time ever, Lon and I will go to Niagara Falls!
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