Chaotic Snowfall in October, what a flight

Wow, what a mess. Tons of snow in the northeast. Newark had a big amount of snow. So much, that they cancelled all domestic flights, but luckily the international flights were able to leave after long delays, de-icing ...

What a trip. Never had that much snow in October.. I am back :-)

First snow in October

What a surprise...As the weather forecast said, it started to snow today October 29th 2011...Pretty heavy. On the way to the Newark Airport roads were already covered with snow and signs were not possible to read. Now I am waiting at Newark Airport for the flight to Stuttgart. So far all domestic flights have been cancelled, so hopefully international will still be ok. Cross fingers.

Walkway over the Hudson

In the lunchbreak Jose and I took the chance to go to the Walkway over the Hudson http://walkway.org/ . It is a just in 2009 renovated and paved old trainbridge in Poughkeepsie over the Hudson River. In the past it was also opened for public, but it was kind of dangerous. Now it is much safer with a real pavement and rails...

Since the weather was supposed to be rainy for the rest of the week we drove down with his rental Mustang and walked over the bridge. We have not walked all the way across the bridge, but right into the middle of the bridge. With the blue sky and the Indian Summer colours on the trees it was a beautiful view... Enjoy the Pictures

New Jersey - October 22nd/23rd 2011

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Having friends all over the world is great. Having friends close to where I am right now in New York is fantastic. So I took advantage to visit my New Jersey friends.

Jerome and Charlotte live in North Bergen/West New York. Not far away from a breathtaking view to Manhattan. So they showed me the area a bit and made it possible to have the scenic view on Manhattan.
We had a lot of fun..

So I took the chance to visit my good old friend Axel in Princeton. Wow, I was lucky again with the weather...sun sun sun...See the pictures

Sushi Edited

Team Dinner at the Sushi Village in Poughkeepsie. All you can eat :-)

Hmmmmmm, was delicious. $20 but you need to finish all food. Any single piece that is left will be charged extra. Well, needless to say, we finished it all :-)

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Meeting and eating with friends

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I took the advantage to meet again some good old friends during my stay in Poughkeepsie. Was a funny lunch with Thuy, JoEllen, Prach and Gary :-)
In the evening we planned a Team Dinner BBQ at the Hotel.
A Filet Mignon that we bought the day before was cut into pieces and grilled to perfection :-) on the BBQ.
What a great evening. Additional food and drinks from all around the world made this Dinner very interesting (Japan, Portugal, Brazil, Korea, Germany, USA).

NYCity edited

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Once more I had the chance to go to New York City during my current stay upstate NY. We took the car to Manhattan and parked it near Times Square. Then we walked all around from Times Square to Chinatown, Ground Zero and Brooklyn Bridge. Lots of walking, but it was a wonderful, sunny, mild day in Manhattan.
I took more than 500 pictures... but only a few are edited and you can check them out. NY City is always nice.
Enjoy BTW, according to my Geotagging poiints and Googlemaps we walked about 6.5 miles through Manhattan :-)

Lindys Diner

Since 1994 I am driving along this old, closed Diner near Port Ewen,NY on Route 9W. It's called LINDY's Diner and since then I take pictures every time I have the chance come upstate NY.
It is interesting to see the Diner rotting on and on. More and more graffitis on the walls and nothing happens. Nobody seems to take care of that area.
So far I only found out, that in Esopus / Port Ewen since more than 10 years multiple requests have been made to build something new on that property.
A colleague who moved to Port Ewen in 1987 !!! said, the Diner was already closed then and it already looked closed for a while.
I could find no Data of that Diner, when it was opened the last time or find any pictures when it was opened.I wrote an Email to the Esopus Community to ask for some more information. Not sure if I will get some. Anyway, take a look at the Pictures from 2000-2011. I need to scan my old photgraphs for more pics.
Enjoy

Edited Pictures

Edited Pictures

I used the Picasa integrated PICNIK Software to edit some of my current pictures. Pretty powerful. Enjoy

Great, sunny, hot Indian Summer Weekend

2011-10-09 (by Eye-Fi)

It was a fantastic, hot (83F) indian Summer Weekend in Upstate NY and Conneticut.
Two Carshows in one day. Perfect :-)

From 2011-10-09 (by Eye-Fi)

This is José and me in front of a Roush Mustang with IRON MAIDEN Design. Cooooool

Indian Summer is here

Car Show at Squantz Pond in Conneticut and OCC Mustang Car Show

See all Pictures from the Squantz Pond Car Show in Conneticut and from the OCC Ford Mustang Meeting in Newburgh at the OCC Headquarter. https://picasaweb.google.com/bigmek71/20111009ByEyeFi?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCI7BgNmWtq6K0gE&feat=directlink

Dinnertime

Take at the Hyde Park Brewery :-)

Upstate New York

It was time again for a new Project in Poughkeepsie,NY. So I was happy to get a direct flight from Stuttgart to Newark (new connection since a few months with Continental Airlines). No more trouble with connecting flights and so on. Get in, fly for some hours, see movies, land get out and voila welcome Big Apple. Took the rental car (Nissan Altima 2.5S) and drove to Poughkeepsie,NY Spent soooooo many times there. Kind of second home. But things changed a bit in Upstate NY. One of my favorite electronic Stores CIRCUIT CITY is no more there. No more Circuit City Stores. They got rid of all stores and only do Online Shop. Hmmm, ok I can still live with that, there is BEST BUY. But Best Buy also changed a bit. The CD Section (I spent quite a lot of time there usually) shrunk from tons many aisles with CDs to 2 Aisles !!!! Either the online Stores are soooo poweful now, that real CDs are not wanted anymore or I have just bad luck. But at the Residence Inn Hotel they also cut down a bit the specials. Usually there was a Evening Social Dinner Monday thru Thursday. Like Hot Dogs, Tortillas, Burgers, Soup etc. Softdrinks etc. Now they only have it Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday. Times are changing. Jet Lag is kicking in. So good night and let's see what else happens in the next weeks :-)

2011-09-30 (by Eye-Fi)