Trip North - Rochester - week 3

Work is progressing on the entryway

 I take Gary to the American Hotel for lunch - they have over 200 homemade soups - but only feature 6 on any given day and they have the best Liverwurst sandwich on Rye.

We have been here over two weeks dry camping so we need to dump and fill.  Rather then go through all the hassle of battening down just to go up the road - we go to Letchworth Park for the night.

We get a nice hike in from Hogsback to the Mt. Morris Dam

 I've been called a Tree Hugger - but here are Hugging Trees

 A view back to the Bend - the truck is just above that bald spot 

all the way to the left.

 The Mt. Morris Dam

 Then we drive down the the Falls - Here is the Upper Falls 

and the new Train Bridge.

 Middle Falls is just down the trail.

I catch a rainbow across the base of Middle Falls 

 Last year when we were here we went to check out the Mary Jemison site and longhouse but it was under repair - we check it out again and the work was done.

 Mary Jemison - White woman of the Genesee.   Born during a voyage from Ireland to the US - she was captured during the French and Indian war around the age of 15 and adopted into the Seneca Nation and decided to stay. 

 I snuck in a bike ride with my friend and her daughter in Genesee Valley Park.  Her daughters first time on the bike and first time with hand brakes - she did great by the end of the ride.

Here is a view of the Genesee River which runs right to left and the Erie Canal which crosses under the bridge.  The water is so high it is hard to discern one from the other.

 

 

 meanwhile, the construction continues