Saturday, January 16, 2010

Maple Syrup House
Originally uploaded by JuneNY

Today, Luckless and I spent a good portion of the day on a geocaching expedition. We like to do other activities on a geocaching day, and today was no exception.

After I picked her up, we headed towards Delhi, New York. Our first stop was at a tiny park on the corner of Main and Franklin Streets, where we found a very tiny geocache. We noticed the Historical Society across the street, but it did not seem to be open today. That was right next door to an interesting looking store, so we went in there. I think it was an organic food shop. After that we headed to the DELHI COLLEGE OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER, which is a beautiful park with trails. AMERICORPS has done a lot of work on the maintenance. We found a geocache here and saw this small building, as well as a couple of others. We saw a large, strange looking piece of old equipment in the woods. Who would have thought that hiking in the winter could be so much fun?

After that, we were a bit worn out, so we headed back to Main Street, Delhi and we ate at the Diner there. After lunch, I asked Luckless if she wanted to see what I refer to as "the old fashioned store". My friend Connie told me about it a while back, and I had been there before. Luckless agreed and we walked to it, and this time I talked with the salesgirl. She was happy to talk about the history of the store and she said I could take pictures. The picture at the top right shows one of the glass cabinets where items for sale are displayed, with a small old wooden
display cabinet on top. Going to this store is like stepping back in time to the fifties.

Then we headed to the SPCA hoping to find a geocache hidden off of the trails there. We found the location of the cache and Luckless found the cache, but it was iced in, and we could not get it out. We walked through an old cemetery located in front of the SPCA and behind the Delaware County Museum. One of the pictures I took there is at the top on the left hand side.

Then we headed home. We pulled over at a really old cemetery on Route 28, but there was no place to park, and too much snow on the ground to pull into the driveway. We will stop there another time and explore it. Another day, another adventure!