Upstate

Too soon, my time in the big city was over--but luckily, there is just more and more and more to look forward to. From NYC, I took a bus upstate to Ithaca to visit my aunt and uncle who live on Lake Cayuga. During a week of totally glorious weather, we saw a play, ate at Moosewood, took hikes in the area...

...visited the Corning Museum of Glass...

...got lunch at the hoppin' Ithaca farmer's market...

...enjoyed the sense that fall is here, leaf-wise and produce-wise and in the crisp, sunny days--and much, much more.

I may not be posting for the next month or so, but rest assured it's because I'm gearing up for a very big adventure. I am headed to Antarctica to work at the South Pole for four months starting in late October. So I will be back in about a month with missives from as south as you can get in the southern hemisphere. Till then!

Ithaca is Gorges

Thanks to a wonderful aunt and uncle who have lived there for many years, I got to spend a few days in Ithaca, having lunch at the edge of Beebe Lake on the Cornell campus (where my uncle is a professor)...

...visiting the house they are nearly finished building on the shore of Cayuga Lake...

...having dinner at the famous (thanks to it's popular line of cookbooks) Moosewood Café...

...and attending a dinner at the beautiful Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.

Ever since I got back from Africa, my uncle has been keeping a bug in my ear about getting a PhD in Development Sociology at Cornell, and that bug is now making some serious noise; 14 years after graduating from undergrad, I might finally be ready to think seriously about going back to school in some way shape or form at the end of my current "temporary retirement." The problem is having to choose just one direction. Teaching English as a second language? Creative writing? International Development? Will there be many future blog posts with an Ithaca location? Only time will tell....