Philadelphia & Western New York

WooHoo! Family roadtrip. Mom and I on the open highway, looking at the map in the morning to see where we'll end up that day/night. LOVE IT!

Over the next week/ten days we drove to Bethlehem, PA where we had dinner with my grandmother and down to Philadelphia for a long weekend. Checking out my old 'hood and city was fabulous. So many things hadn't changed; yet, so many things had. The best part was catching up with an old pal and recently retired president of the Philly Gator Club.

With our visit in Philadelphia at an end, mom and I wound our way back up to Bethlehem, crossed in to New York and over to Brewerton on the edge of Oneida Lake. We wound our way around Oneida eating at Grazziano's in Canastota often. Honestly, it's the best Italian I've eaten in a very long time.

We then worked our way up to Thousand Islands following the coast of Lake Ontario until we came to the St. Lawrence River. The coast and island area is really quite nice and quaint, almost untouched.

Then it was time to return to Syracuse to collect my sister from the airport just in time for our cruise out of Manhattan!