Yesterday and this morning we explored a very small segment of this amazing national recreation area. At the Dingman’s Visitors Center we learned that the history of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area is closely tied to the beginnings of the environmental movement in the 1960’s and 70’s and a proposed federally funded dam that was never built. What was once a vast swath of privately held land is now a public park. Hiking, camping, cultural history. We visited the Dingman’s Visitors Center to get an orientation to the park then climbed to the top of the falls that was once home to the Dingman family who would charge ten cents to view the falls. This morning we checked out Raymondskill Falls but because of construction couldn’t visit the lower falls viewing platform. Then we hiked the George Childs Park. Wow! Fabulous falls, a historic CCC picnic pavilion, and the ruins of a textile mill!
Aboard the Norwegian Jewel we’ve made stops in Cozumel, Mexico and Georgetown, Grand Cayman to explore beyond our previous experiences here. Soon we’ll be making our way to ports we’ve not yet explored in the Southern Caribbean.
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
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