In Cooperstown I went to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Lots of info and history about baseball, almost too much for someone like me who isn’t a big baseball fan. However, great info on the history of baseball. And I found out an interesting bit of info about Babe Ruth’s estranged wife who died in Watertown MA. Wild! Loved seeing Hank Aaron & Jackie Robinson’s plagues in the Hall.
From Cooperstown I drove across across to Corning NY. I wanted to go to Watkins Glen state park which I went to years ago on a bike trip, but having spent so much time in the BHoF I could only stop at Montour Falls. Pretty! But overcast and sprinkling as well. Same as last time I was there!
Because of the weather I stayed in a cabin — cute and protected. I couldn’t cope with the tent if it was going to rain.
From there I headed to Corning and the Corning Museum of Glass. What a place!! Amazing art and technical displays about the development of glass. All the things we take for granted, like tempered glass in windshields, and lenses in telescopes, had to be developed and refined. Sheets of glass in windows — it took 7 years to develop the process that allowed glass to be made clear and in huge sheets. I learned so much.
But the art! so amazing. If you can ever get out to the museum it is so worth the trip.
Drove from there across upstate NY: very rural and lots of farms. No time to stop and take pictures. Made it to Eire PA, next to Presque Isle State Park. The campground there allowed camping on the beach which sounded like fun, despite the high winds. So I took a chance and had a wonderful set up and a great sunset into Lake Eire. Dinner at the the wild restaurant across the street.
Next day I was able to take a bike ride on Presque Isle. It is a pennisula that sticks out into Lake Eire, formed by the ongoing winds and waves of the lake. Lots of beaches and recreation. It was also the site where Oliver Perry’s ships were built that fought in the Battle of Lake Erie in 1812 which sent the British back to Canada. Hence near the tip of the pennisula there is a monument to Oliver Perry (“Don’t give up the Ship”).
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