Most of you know that I’m currently living in New Zealand but I’m also an American.  I’m visiting my mother and sister in Rhinebeck, New York and have had the best time walking through the falling leaves along the Hudson River.  I haven’t done this in YEARS!

I needed to exercise a lot because we also went to lunch at the Culinary Institute of America and my god.. what a place!!  Everything tasted so good – even ordinary things were cooked to perfection.  It wouldn’t do for me to live near here, that’s for sure!  I’d be walking by the river morning, noon and night!

Then to make up for eating at the Apple Pie Cafe at CIA, we went to Ferncliff Forest and climbed the observation tower.  I was exhausted by the time I reached the top.  I didn’t know they could make so many stairs and make them so steep!  The view over the fall foliage and the river was nothing short of spectacular.

I’m staying with my sister but I’m in New York to see my elderly mother who’s close to falling off the reality wagon.  At first she refused to see any of us but now she’ll see only me.  I guess because I’m from so far away, there’s the risk that she’ll die before I get back to the states.

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