Utica and Rome

I have never liked the Thanksgiving holiday.  Too much food, too many people in a small space, too much football, just too much.  Add to that “Black Friday,” a travesty of greed. My answer is to get away from it all; to go somewhere far away.

This year we traveled to Utica and Rome.  No, not Greece and Italy, upstate New York.  Thanksgiving Day itself has light traffic, since almost everyone who is visiting relatives is already there.  We arrived in Utica in time to see “Knives Out,” a really good movie.

Friday we drove to Fort Stanwix in Rome.  This Revolutionary War fort is a reconstruction, but the interpretive Center was open at 9 a.m., and we got a personal tour of the Fort itself from a knowledgeable guide.  Then it was off to the Utica Art Museum, which has an wonderful collection, including a Franz Kline.  We still had time for a matinee of “Good Liars” with Helen Mirren, another great film.

While you were eating turkey, we were eating at a diner, Denny’s, a sandwich shop, an excellent Japanese restaurant, and a rib joint in Binghamton.  

My only regret was that neither I nor the desk clerk could figure out how to connect to the WiFi, so no posts for two days.  Sorry.