Have I Mentioned Lately That I’m Spoiled?
Posted by Moose on October 18th, 2006. Filed under: Travel.In half an hour we leave for the airport. This airport holds the plane that will lift us gently off the ground and deposit us in New York. In an amount of time that makes hardy, pioneering ancestors spit with disdain from under large, wiry moustaches before recounting the winter of ’66. Something about a covered wagon, several large oxen, sixty pounds of flour, and a sheer rock face. I drifted off because I was thinking about the frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity.
My wiry-moustached, sneering ancestor is now saying something deragatory about frozen hot chocolate. How in his day frozen didn’t have anything to do with chocolate! It was all about losing fingers! If you were lucky! Why, my granddaddy lost his entire left side in Great Northern Cold Front of ’42!…. Sorry, drifted off again.
Autumn leaves (did you know they turn colors?) were the original impetus for this trip. Plane fares during colorful leaf season were a bit steep, however. So we may have missed the lovely red foliage. But I’ve been assured that New York still has steaks.
I’m looking forward to the steaks. And the frozen hot chocolate. And shoving my hardy, pioneering ancestor under my well-shod heel. The heel one may well describe as a spoiled, if one has a wiry moustache and sixty pounds of flour.
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October 18th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Colors… COLORS… Man over here in the great state of “the Vermont” (pronounced vEERmont) is mostly gone, sorry to burst your bubble! But I would rather be somewhere in this great nation that the seasons don’t change all that much. That way my mountain bike trails don’t get covered with slick leaves that hide things like roots and rocks that toss me over the bars once a ride! “Squid what you doing on the ground?” “I’m inspecting the leaved and I decided to do it head first!” (That was the conversation I had with a new mountain biking friend I have, and she is cute!)
Oh… and last year when we did the Mt. Washington climb in late October. All there was for color was damn red! I mean yes red is a great color, happens to be my favorite and all, but it gets old after a four hour hike up the mountain, and then a four hour hike down, thank god we got out of there after the sun went down!
I will be much happier when the leaves are under some snow and I am hiking up the same mountains and skiing down afterwards. And yes I am cheep, paying for a lift ticket seems so… I don’t know, expensive!
And moose bring a raincoat! We have been having crappy weather!
And have fun in NY too!
October 19th, 2006 at 6:47 am
Serendipity! I’m now glaring at you with envy. I’ve been there a couple of times…maybe three…all because of that stupid movie that I love so much. Take pictures so I can reminisce please. Oh, and when you get back, let me know what hotel you stayed in. I’m looking into taking a trip there in the next few months and need good recommendations that won’t cause me to file bankruptcy upon my return.
October 19th, 2006 at 7:39 am
Good luck, Godspeed, have a safe trip and bring back some wonderful photos!
October 19th, 2006 at 10:56 am
Fall is the one reason why I don’t want to leave the midwest for Arizona..like my husband believes we will eventually do.
Pretty colors :0)