Travel

Detailed travel logs and trip journals live here. Expect day‑by‑day itineraries (e.g., our Switzerland & Italy trip) with weather notes, meals and family anecdotes, plus posts on museum visits, road‑trips and cruises.

The Contemporary Galleries of the Corning Museum of Glass have stunning art and equally amazing architecture. The way natural light comes into the space and completely changes exhibits is amazing.

Bright white gallery hall at the Corning Museum of Glass with a dark chandelier, visitors walking and posing for photos, and a long dark bench on the floor.

Sunlit contemporary museum gallery with tall white walls, skylight ceiling grid, and dark glass sculptures on circular pedestals

Multiple colorful curved glass sculptures suspended by wires in a bright white gallery at the Corning Museum of Glass

Layered glass cube sculpture with teal and iridescent panels on a white pedestal in a bright gallery

Time for a drive-in movie at the Elmira Drive-In to see Christopher Robbin. 🎬

Drive-in theater at dusk showing Christopher Robin on a large outdoor screen, with several cars parked facing it

We had to dodge the rain but we got to see Taughannock Falls today! Impressive waterfall!

Taughannock Falls dropping over tall layered limestone cliffs into a misty pool, surrounded by green forested gorge walls.

Family of four smiling together at Taughannock Falls overlook, a tall waterfall dropping through a rocky gorge surrounded by green trees

Family selfie at Ventosa Vineyards! 🍷

Family of four smiling for a selfie at a vineyard with lush green grapevines and trees in the background.

Fun afternoon tasting all sorts of beverages at 3 Brothers Winery!

Three Brothers Wineries and Estates entrance arch and wine store building on a rainy day, with a loaded bicycle parked out front.

Beverage flight on a skateboard-shaped tasting board with 11 small glasses in varied colors labeled with flavor names, on a copper table at a winery

Stony Lonesome Wine Cellars tasting room exterior with covered porch, stone landscaping, and large decorative wine barrel outside.

Cairns by Ithaca Falls.

Rocky riverbed covered with flat limestone rocks and several small stacked stone cairns near Ithaca Falls, with trees in the background.

Ithaca Falls. 😊👍🏻

Ithaca Falls cascading down wide layered shale rock ledges into a pool below, surrounded by green trees

Ithaca Falls cascading down layered shale rock ledges into a calm pool below, surrounded by green trees

Ice Cream stop for today at Cornell Dairy Bar. 🤤🍦

Four hands holding ice cream treats including three waffle cones with mint chip and berry flavors and one sundae topped with hot fudge nuts and a cherry.

Family of four taking a selfie in front of a large white metal Cornell cow sculpture against a partly cloudy sky.

Great beer 🍺 and food 🍕 at Grist Iron Brewing Co this evening, with a nice view of Lake Seneca in the distance. Plus awesome bag boards.

Grist Iron Brewing Co tap handles lined up at the bar with beer tap labels visible including Ol Buddy Ol Pale Ale and Blueberry Wheat

Cornhole board branded with Grist Iron Brewing Co on grass with bean bags on and around it, child walking in background

Four children playing at the edge of a small pond on a golf course, with Seneca Lake and rolling hills visible in the distance.

We had a fun (blazing hot) sail on the True Love schooner on Seneca Lake today. ⛵️

Upward view of a tall wooden schooner mast with white sails and an American flag against a clear blue sky

Wooden mast and white mainsail of a schooner viewed from below against a deep blue sky

Deck-level view of a schooner's white sails billowing over calm blue water with tree-lined hills in the background

Family of four smiling on the deck of a schooner on Seneca Lake, sails and rigging overhead, green hills in the background.