May 28, 2007
Adirondack Adventure Day 6: Final Morning
All good things have to come to an end, I guess, but I put this off as long as I could, opting for the late afternoon flight out of Albany. This gave Erica and I time to go on a walk around Ti. You'd think we'd take a tour of Ti right away, right? I don't know why, but we didn't. We saved it for last. Erica promised it would only take half an hour. She was right. It'll probably take me longer to write this post. Still, it has some beautiful buildings.
For instance, this was Erica's high school.
Geesh, if I had gone to high school here, I wouldn't have learned anything. I would've daydreamed the whole time. Here are some more pretty buildings.
And here's North Country Community College, where Erica's illustrious post-secondary education began.
What I love about Ti is that even just walking around town feels like you're hiking.
A long time ago when I first met Erica and we were talking about Ti and the different points of interest along the byway, I told her that there was a riverwalk closeby, right? And she rolled her eyes and laughed. That's a point of interest? Apparently that was where all the high school kids would go to get drunk (and other things). But it looks pretty nice right now.
Erica also drove me out to Roger's Rock and Ti Beach.
Even after seeing that not all byway poi's are as exciting in person as they seem online, Erica humored me by driving the byway (for the most part) down to Albany. We had seen the Lakes portion, and now I wanted to see the Locks. First stop, Whitehall and Lock 11.
Lock 11 wasn't so nice, so we thought we'd stop by Lock 9 in hopes that it was prettier. It was actually kind of idyllic. Men were fishing, a boat was coming up the canal, but since I had a flight to catch, we couldn't wait to see the locks in action. We just had enough time to take a few snapshots.
After lunch at Steve's Place, Erica and her mom dropped me off at the airport. I hate saying goodbye at airports.