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Parts of Washington Park were originally the State Street Cemetary.  By the 1850's public opinion was shifting to support the expanding the much smaller parade ground into the urban planned park we have today, so the cemetary and other lots were purchased and existing graves moved to Albany Rural Cemetary in Menands.  (Should you ever visit Albany, Rural Cemetary is definitely worth a visit if you're into that type of thing-- it is full o...

I took a month off from work in Boston and decided to drive to Los Angeles on a whim. Not one hotel room, and only four proper showers all month!

Well the crooked toe needed to go to Albany for business.  I will be here for the next few days working for GE.  There will be little time for play as the site assessment will take the entire day including the evenings. Lots of walking.  We did go to a good Italian food resturant, but that is all that we got to do. 

It was a nice day in Atlanta, so I had hope for good luck getting to Vermont.  I kept calling the Delta number to check on my baggage, and there never was really an update that helped me know where my bag was.  Laura got me to the airport around 4 and I got to my gate and actually got a seat on the flight I was booked onto, plus they were able to tell me that my baggage was booked on a Continental flight to Albany from Newark that would beat me there. My flight boarded on time and ...

Photos from around the US and Canada over the past year.

32 states in the US and 8 in Canada. Travelled Canada and the USA from coast to coast within five months. Travelled mostly by train, sometimes by coach. In total 33.000 km (20.000 miles). Started and ended in Toronto. Some other highlights: Montreal, Quebec, New York, Philadelpia, Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, El Paso, LA, San Fran, Yosemite, Death Valley, Vegas, Vancouver, Jasper. Experienced temperatures varying from minus 25 degrees Celsius to +30 degrees Celsius. Only shot 6000 pictures.

well i have completed the rest of the drive which was over 500 miles. and now i am waiting for the vans to be switch out so i can head back tonight........ i loved the drive from Amherst to Albany real real pritty drive to do especially in NY driving through the mountains.

6:47pmReached Albany, NY.Reading Book 6...Dining Car is closed right now. Of course, when I want to eat.7:32pmFinally left Albany. The guy sitting next to me is on his cell phone and sounds exactly like Craig Jorzcak, but looks like Napolean Dynamite. That is all.9:06pmAt Syracuse and I'm in the dining car. I've been waiting just about an hour and no one has taken my table's order. I'm sitting with a nice Spanish family of three, but not conversing much. Back to the wait.10:22pmBack from dinn...

Don't ever try to go sleding in up state New York... I am warning you now... ROCKS!!! many many many rocks.

It started innocently enough; I visited Juneau, Alaska in June 1993 and explored the State Capitol building. A few months later, It was Montgomery, Alabama's. In the course of time, it became a hobby. Near the end it became a bit of an obsession. Then, in August of 2006, I visited my 50th US State Capitol building in Pierre, SD. (Yeh!) Yes, I know, I'm a geography nerd.... All entries are maintained in on the 'first visit' date.