Mill Run, PA Flight 93 Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater House 10/17 - 10/19/2021 Travel Tour

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We scooted out of New York and headed directly west on Interstate 78 to Pennsylvania to Mill Run at Yogi Jellystone RV Park for 2 nights @ $39.00/night.

As we left the Big Apple in the rearview mirror and found the calm of rolling hills and corn fields surrounding the roadside in PA.  We noticed we were in the open countryside where the fateful airline had gone down.  We knew it was a moment to pay tribute at the Flight 93 National Memorial.

The site of United Airlines Flight 93's September 11, 2001 crash is now       a memorial with a Wall of Names.

One day a common country field; now only a field of honor forever. 

 The memorial is built to commemorate the crash of UA Flight 93 which was one of four aircraft hijacked during the September 11 attacks in 2001.

44 people died  The crater was backfilled and now the impact site and hemlock grove remain.  That area is open only to the families of the passengers and crew of Flight 93.

A somber morning turned child-like in the afternoon as we checked into our RV Campground named: Yogi Jellystone  

Located in the beautiful Laurel Highlands, the campground features train rides, a carousel, paintball (no we did not participate) Yogi Bear's Wetland, and waterslides.

We visited "Fallingwater" a historic house designed in 1935 by renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) for the Kaufmann family.  The family owned Pittsburgh's largest department store and they asked for a vacation home.  (Kaufmann's). 

Fallingwater is designed to rise above the waterfall over which it is built.

  Quarried native sandstone and other local materials from the property were used in the construction of the main house, guest house, and service wing.  Fallingwater is surrounded by 5,100 acres of natural land, streams and trails known as the Bear Run Nature Reserve.

It remains a part of history named the 'best all-time work of American architecture"  On July 10, 2019, UNESCO inscribed the Fallingwater building to the World Heritage List.  It is a National Historic Landmark.

                                               As we travel we realize: 

                       "America's Landmarks will change the way we all see the world."

Lido Beach, New York Nickerson Beach Camp Ground 10/12 - 10/16 Travel Tour

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Checked in to NY Nickerson Beach Campground in Lido Beach.  It borders the Atlantic Ocean with a 121-acre park with beaches, swimming, and fun for the family.  3 Nights $216.00.

Jones Beach Theater is an outdoor amphitheater at Jones Beach State Park.  Jimmy Buffet performed here many times.  

Fire Island National Seashore is a 32-mile-long and a mile-wide center island of the outer barrier islands parallel to the South Shore of Long Island.  

The Fire Island Light House is a landmark on the Great South Bay.  It is an important and historic landmark for transatlantic ships entering New York Harbor at the turn of the last century.   For many European immigrants, the Fire Island Light was their first sight of land upon arrival in America.

Edward J. Riegelmann played a leading role in the creation of the long boardwalk as part of an ambitious plan to rejuvenate Coney Island and the beach.  The Riegelmann  Boardwalk is a 2.7-mile long boardwalk along the southern shore of the Coney Island peninsula in the NY City borough of Brooklyn, facing the Atlantic Ocean.

this is an 8-mile-long parkway on Long Island.  It is named for the master builder and urban planner Robert Moses.  

Coney Island Beach and Boardwalk is an ideal summer respite.  3 miles of sandy beaches and summertime sunny and ocean waves make for the perfect getaway.  Off-season we gaze up at the iconic Parachute Jump at the NY Aquarium, The Abe Stark Ice Skating Rink

Nathan's Famous, Inc. This is the original Nathan's restaurant at the corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. Founded: 1916.l  It began as a nickel hot dog stand and bears the name of its co-founder Nathan Handwerker who started the business with his wife, Ida.  Ida created the hot dog recipe and the secret spice recipe.  The Coney Island Hot Dog is topped with meat sauce with mustard and chopped onions.  The Major League Baseball named Nathans as an official hot dog sponsor.

The Queens Museum at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, NY.   An educational center

 founded in 1972 and  A room-sized scale model of the five boroughs.has permanent exhibitions. A room-sized scale model of the five boroughs built for the 1964 NY World's Fair and repeatedly updated since then. The Panorama of the City of New York.  

Tiffany Exhibit

Flushing Meadows: The NY City Pavilion stands near the Trylon and Perisphere.  The Unisphere still stands today.

We strolled the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park manicured lawn and benches.

Grandstand Stadium for the US Open Tennis competition.  It is situated in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, New York.  The stadium can seat 8,000 people, owned by the United States Tennis Association.

Tim has mapped out our route (with RV in tow) through NY on our way to Harrisburg, PA to stay at the Elks Lodge.  We stop at the :

Washington's Headquarters Museum in Morristown, New Jersey.  In 1776, Washington's officers had used Jacob Arnold's Tavern located on the Morristown Green in the urban center as the army's headquarters; Washington himself stayed in nearby Ford Mansion.  

George Washinton, Circa 1791 oil /  Attributed to Edward Savage (1761-1817).  A multi-talented artist who, though initially self-taught, studied in England before

 establishing himself in New York.

Commemorating the sites of General Washinton and the Continental Army's winter encampment of December 1779 to June 1780 where they survived the coldest winter on record.