Central New York

Editor's Note: This blog was updated from a past New York By Rail experience visiting Howe Caverns Roaming through limestone corridors, vast galleries and beneath colossal boulders, I’m 156 feet below the earth’s surface in a cave, six million years in the making. With strange formations, flowing sheets and dripping stalactites, the solid rock walls appear fluid-like. Continuing down a [...] Continue reading  

A train trip through Upstate New York aboard Amtrak takes you past many farms; fields of corn, apple orchards, and dairy cows flashing by outside the window. Yet there is one place along the Empire Corridor where the state’s cornucopia of agricultural abundance comes in direct contact with our intercity passenger rail system - the farmers market at the Utica [...] Continue reading  

Amtrak is requiring face masks during the coronavirus pandemic to ensure the safety of its customers. Between my last haircut in January and my cancelled March appointment, my hair became like wearing a sweater. While mostly in isolation, outside life was keeping an eye on a horse, tending to a veggie garden, and indoor – binge watching of movies. I [...] Continue reading