Hawk's Nest

Again today, we made lemonade- as per the advice of Leon. He suggested that we take a drive out the most scenic road in New York- so appealing it is often used for car commercials. So we headed for Port Jervis, and points beyond. Port Jervis has some beautiful old architecture.

The section of the highway that we drove along is called Hawk's Nest. Not sure why- though if I were a hawk, and there wasn't a road, it would be a good place to nest. Maybe that is the reasoning behind the name?!?

I only took a couple of photos before giving the camera to Joe. Heights- especially looking over into an abyss- really not my thing! The kids didn't have that problem, though.


It has a lovely view of the Delaware River, and the road itself is lined with a rock wall. It is twisty and turny- made me carsick- but you can see why car commercials would appreciate it. Sadly, as you can see, they are working on the road, so it isn't quite so scenic!

From there, our directive was to drive 15 miles further, to the Roebling Bridge. This was really cool! Roebling is the architect of the Brooklyn Bridge, as well as two other famous bridges. He designed this and 3 others, as aquaducts, in order to get rafts and barges across the Delaware, and around a dam. The dam was to help the log rafts get down the river. The bridge has a cool suspension system that anchors in the ground, and then holds tension across the span of the bridge. Cars now drive through the bottom portion that once held 6 feet of water. There are walkways on both sides of the river, so you can walk above the cars and look over into the river. It was really amazing to see the structure- and read about the history of it. The other 3 aquaducts that he designed along the Delaware were not saved- this one was because someone saw that it could be transitioned into a bridge.

We stopped to eat in Lackawaxen at Two Rivers Junction. It was...interesting. We all had breakfast- and it tasted pretty good going in, but now I am paying for it. Blech! It is also apparently an observatory for local bald eagles, but we didn't see any. We did see a hawk or golden eagle flying over us on the bridge. If any of you are good at silhouettes of birds of prey, we would appreciate knowing exactly what it was. I did catch a photo of it screaming, which was pretty cool, but will show you one that is probably more easily identified.

Aside from the stomach discomfort (partly from the road), I really enjoyed the excursion. The dealership service department thinks they may be done with the truck early enough tomorrow that we can head out- which would be good, since our host and hostess leave for Canada and a family reunion- on Friday. Keep your fingers crossed that it all goes smoothly, and next time I write, it will be from Akron!