Sunday 20th May 2007. New York City to Western New York State.

Shannon, Alice and I had breakfast this morning at the Corner Bakery on 3rd Avenue. I am still feeling rather groggy but today I must journey from the city home to Randolph and the luxury of my own bed at long last.

Enroute Alice had a surprise destination in mind and so we found ourselves at the world’s largest kaleidoscope located in the Catskill Mountains. The Catskill Kaleidoscope at Emerson was a very interesting pit stop. Located so close to Woodstock, as I lay there on the floor watching the scenes change above me I could not help but feel a little closer to the hallucinogenic 60’s.

Afterwards we ate in one of those wonderful local roadside bakery’s that characterise the picture postcard view of the North Eastern United States. And Pineview Bakery on Route 28 certainly had its standardized locals, its long counter top, its large grill and its waitress ready with the coffee pot…Oh, yeh; and a few tourists too.

But with me this year there always seems to be a crisis and our trip to see the kaleidoscope got us ticketed by a state trooper. So with fine in hand we resumed our journey home.