Waterfalls and Wine on Day 9

"Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, a good friend."

  ~Moliere

Trip Totals:

Walmart Trips Made: 6

McDonald's Diet Cokes Drank: 6

Horse Trailers Seen: 10

Itinerary Changes Made: 4

Times John Made Fun of Lauren's Navigation Abilities: 4

Today's Itinerary: Waterfalls and Wine along the Finger Lakes in New York

Leasons Learned:
1.) Wear proper foot attire if you plan on hiking up 100's of stairs to look at waterfalls

2.) Lauren's limit is 6 wineries in a day

3.) Backseats of cars are good for napping

 

The Finger Lakes in New York are famous for 2 things, waterfalls and wineries and we visited both today. We have in the past checked out several of the other major waterfalls in the area on our other visits, but we had yet to check out Watkins Glen. Watkins Glen is famous for something other than its NASCAR racing, it has an amazing state park with some fun trails and great waterfalls. Perhaps we should have planned better because Lauren and I both wore sandals, oops. We managed though and hiked a decent way in, far enough to add it to our things to do the next time we come back to visit my Mom. Although next time we'll make it to the top of the 5 mile hike. 

 

Next we hit the wineries, Pleasant Valley Wine Company, Bully Hill Vineyards, Heron Hill Winery, Stever Hill Vineyards, Vineyard View Winery and capped off with 3 Brothers Wineries (which is 3 wineries in 1 spot). Along the way we refilled our wine fridge with 11 new bottles and we will likely hit the wine store to grab a few of our favorites from the area we didn't visit on our tour. 

After our waterfalls and wine we had a great stake dinner with asparagus on the grill and some corn on the cob. Heading to bed earlier than normal and finally get a day to sleep in on this road trip.

 

 

 

View from Bully Hill Winery

Lauren's coloring from Lunch at Bully Hill

View from Scenic Overlook from the Road between Wineries 

View from Vineyard View Winery

View from Heron Hill Winery

Dino is quite the wino, 11 bottles not a bad collection for 1 day

Finger Lake Wineries and Waterfalls Rough Draft

After leaving DC we head north to visit my parents. No animals with us make this day trip to the Finger Lake Wineries and Waterfalls very easy.

There are a couple most stop favorite wineries, but for the most part we hit what we find along the road (this isn't our first time visiting this area).

The most have stops are Americana Winery, Swedish Hill Winery & Hazlett Winery. Other we have marked down to visit are Goose Watch Winery (amazing view), Penguin Bay, Chateau Lafayette Reneau, Atwater Estate Vineyard & Catharine Valley Winery.

As for the waterfalls some we will hit on our wine tour or when we just out and about the town of Ithaca. Those stops include Buttermilk Falls, Taughannock Falls & Watkins Glen State Park. We have seen Buttermilk Falls in the Summer before but have only ever seen Taughannock in the fall and we've never been to Watkins Glen State Park.