DAY 206 CORNWALL NY – Friends

The day started out with fog, rain and lots of trains.  Love hearing the trains (almost as much as the ocean’s surf) and they didn’t blow their horns or whistles during the night…or did I just not hear it? 

MORNING
FOG

 

 

MORNING
TRAIN

 

 

 

 

 

We usually turn on the TV at each port and get whatever comes over the airwaves.  If marinas do have cable, we don’t bother hooking it up.  Well in Cornwall we get about 10 stations….most of them Korean.  Some are dubbed or have English captions.

At noon Ken & Margaret Schmidt picked us up and took us to their home in Cornwall-On-Hudson for a barbeque.  Well, first they took us to a grocery store as Ted reminded me there may not be many stores going up the locks and we needed more essentials than those I told Katie Thursday (though she did surprise me with the important stuff…Wegman’s triple crème butter brie).   I’ve given Ted a list of things I want to eat when I’m dying and that’s right up there (what a shame if I don’t have much of an appetite).

 

 

 

The Schmidts took us for groceries and motor oil and then to their home where they wined and dined us with appetizers and a delicious steak dinner (too damp and cold to eat outside).  In addition to their beautiful grounds and pool,  you may notice they have a piece of the ‘rock’ in their back yard.  Now THAT’S a rock !!!  After dinner they even surprised Ted with an early birthday cake.  We told old stories and new stories and …. as always….laughed till it hurt.  Thank you!!!  It was a fun, wonderful, special day with two very special people.  And Ken, we love the picture of you on your first day of teaching.  Hope you saved that jacket!

 

SCHMIDT’S
HOME

“THE SCHMIDT ROCK”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES
IT TAKE TO FLIP A STEAK?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

FUTURE
PRINCIPAL

 

 

 

DAY 205 CORNWALL NY – Cornwall Yacht Club

MANASQUAN NJ to
CORNWALL NY

Best day on the ocean yet!  It was absolutely smooth….hard to believe.   We traveled 102 miles in 10 hours.  There was a fishing tournament in NJ and boats were out all the way up the NJ shore.  Ted said we could stop in New York City but we were headed for Cornwall to see friends Margaret and Ken Schmidt.  Hard to pass up NYC but would have been difficult to just have a couple of hours with all the hookups and ‘unhookups’.  When we arrived in the New York Harbor the water totally changed.  So many speedboats, ferries and tour boats were on the water it was really churned up and things started flying.  We did see the spire on top of the World Trade Center – which was not there when we toured the Memorial (a “don’t-miss”) in the Fall.  It still needs some finishing touches but I still thrill to see it as well as the skyline.  We have now added NYC to our “must visit” again list.

 

GOODBYE
MANASQUAN NJ

 

THE CALMEST
OCEAN DAY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NJ FISHING
TOURNEY

 

NEW YORK
HARBOR

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE VERRAZANO

 

 

 

 

 

 

WORLD TRADE
CENTER

 

A LITTLE MORE
TO BE DONE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EMPIRE ST BLDG
& PIER 57

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UP THE
HUDSON

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YONKERS

 

THE THAYER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEST POINT

We are here in Cornwall and I love the scenery.   Mountains of trees and running trains surround the area and it is beautiful.  And good wi-fi!  Must house hunt.  

 

CORNWALL
PORT AFT