Mountain Ranges, Olympic Venues & Famous authors

( Craig writes) We traveled from Malone, New York to Waltham, Massachusetts today and drove through both the Adirondack and Green Mountain ranges taking short hikes in each of them.  Passing by Lake Champlain we stopped in Lake Placid, New York for coffee. Lake Placid was the site for the Winter Olympics in 1932 and in 1980.

                              Becky and Nicole hiking in the Adirondack Mountains in New York

       Craig and Becky dancing to the song "Moonlight in Vermont" while actually being in Vermont!

 

                                          Nicole found us a great coffee shop in Lake Placid.

                    Nicole and Craig contemplating over lunch in the Green Mountains of Vermont.

We arrived in Concord, Massachusetts just before the famous Orchard House (Louisa Mae Alcott's home) was closing but the tour staff decided to give us a special guided tour as the last one of the day. The three of us enjoyed the informative tour and the special treatment from our friendly guide. After the house tour we went to visit the Author's Ridge at the nearby Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. It was very interesting to see the graves of the literary giants Louisa Mae Alcott, David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson all in close proximity of each other.

                             Two book lovers at the home of the famous author Louisa Mae Alcott.

Louisa Mae Alcott's grave in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts. Notice the writing pencils many admirers have left on her grave in tribute.