The Spillway at Pymatuning State Park

A short drive from Pymatuning Valley Resort, you will find The Spillway at Pymatuning State Park located near the Ohio/Pennsylvania border.

This fee-free area features The Spillway "where the ducks walk on the fishes backs." Here are the ducks.

Here are the fishes.

Here is a volunteer fish and duck feeder. He has purchased this bag of bagels and other bags of NAME BRAND bread from the concessionaire at the spillway. The concessionaire sells day old bread two loaves for one dollar. The bags this volunteer purchased still had 2 days before the "sell by" date. Lucky ducks! and fish!

The volunteer feeds the wildlife.

This group brought their own bread...lots of it.

When you're in Ohio or Pennsylvania, always watch out for horses and buggies.

Watch the ducks and fish at The Spillway below.

For more pictures, go to http://public.fotki.com/Marlonfleenor/1/2008/june/pymatuning-state-pa/ .

To be continued...

Pymatuning Valley Resort, Williamsfield, Ohio

After saying goodbye to Mike and Lisa, we headed to another Coast to Coast Resort, Pymatuning Valley Resort in Williamsfield, Ohio.

The indoor pool was busier than the outdoor pool today because it rained quite a bit today, as it would most of our stay here.

If you like shuffleboard or playgrounds, this is the place for you.

There are also park models and cabins for rent if you don't bring your recreational vehicle.

On a hot summer day the water park located at the entrance to the resort will cool you off with a splash.

For more pictures, go to http://public.fotki.com/Marlonfleenor/1/2008/june/pymatuning-valley-resort/ .

To be continued...

Onondaga Lake, Salt Museum & Other Offbeat Attractions

Today, Mike cooked for us. This was the main course.

Next we headed over to the must-see museum of Liverpool, New York-The Salt Museum!

The salt drilling rig drops a heavy bit into the ground about 20 times a minute, creating a hole six inches in diameter. The drilling rigs drill to about 400 feet searching for brine.

These kettles were used by salt boilers to boil brine. This was a dangerous job as injury or death could result from a scalding splash of brine or a fall into a kettle of boiling brine.

Lisa is grateful she doesn't work as a salt boiler. She would not want to die falling into a kettle.

The Salt Museum is located within Onondaga Lake State Park.

In the park, you can take a free, relaxing tram tour.

You can also pay to rent one of these and take your own tour.

Which do you think we did? Watch the video below.
The other mode of transport DOES look fun, though.

Next we headed to Syracuse to find some of the offbeat roadside attractions we had found in our internet research.

This house is built on the roof of the now-abandoned Penfield Manufacturing Company.

Do you see anything wrong with this stop light?

At least yellow is still in the middle.

New York's version of Mickey Mouse is Tully Turtle. As the owner of Tully's, Tully promises great food and good times...not good food and great times.

For more pictures, go to http://public.fotki.com/Marlonfleenor/1/2008/june/our-final-day-with-/ .

To be continued...