This is our second day in the New York City area. Originally we were supposed to tour the Culinary Arts Institute and have lunch there. But apparently Fantasy had such a bad experience with them last year they changed the schedule. Darn, I was looking forward to it because my son-in-law attended that school Instead, we started the day with an elegant lunch at Cosimo’s Trattoria.
After lunch, we went to Roosevelt’s Homestead and Library. Roosevelt was born here and lived here his whole life. In fact, he came back quite often and would conduct official business here. He built onto the original home – I’m assuming the wings added to each side – to accommodate more family.
I can help but compare this house to the Vanderbilt’s summer home, the Breakers because both were from the same time period.
For an update on the campground yesterday, the river rose 9-1/2 feet, but it didn’t crest the banks. They evacuated us just in case, because it did crest a week or two earlier. The photo below is of the campsite I moved to down the road. I don’t think I’ve ever had a campsite this secluded.
Fala looks like a little falafel with all that hair: https://www.nps.gov/articles/fala.htm