Oct. 12, 2026 - CHASING RAINBOWS, SUNSETS AND ADVENTURE: New York Times STYLE
Our friend Howard LaBrie sent us this link to the article in the New York Times which he read shortly after returning from his visit with us in Penn Yan.
Before we left on any trip, we had to take care of business. Every year, we make a great deal of grape juice to save through the winter. We thoroughly enjoy it…sometimes with ice, sometimes with sparkling water…..come winter, it’s always a picker upper, but it has its drawbacks…. It’s a lot of work.
… and very messy
Julie will be dog free for a good part of a week. What will she do with her time? She’ll probably have to walk me!
….and then again, we could scrap the whole thing, if the sun comes out, and just go fishing in the old smoker craft
CHASING RAINBOWS, SUNSETS AND ADVENTURE: New York Times STYLE
October 12th, 2026
Dear Friends,
So today I am 79 years old! I went to bed and I was 78 and I woke up this morning and I was 79. Is it a milestone? I don’t know… what did I do to deserve it? I don’t know. My health is relatively good and I plan on trucking along for as long as this body holds up. I don’t know what my plan is for my birthday and the fact is….I have no plan. We, Julie Schnepf and I, have no plan….we never did. We are merely like two waifs wandering in the desert of ideas. Today we are going to get in the car and drive to Rochester to drop off our two dogs and the three dogs we have been babysitting…that’s right, we have had five for the past weekend…five dogs! Now we really be able go some places that we haven’t experienced, and not worry about what time we get home. We have packed all the necessary goods….just in case we find a good fishing hole or we find a place to bed down. We had thought of going to the Adirondacks…. but it’s quite cold and rainy, or we thought perhaps we would go to Niagara Falls, Canada… but it seems like it’s going to be quite cold and rainy and then we thought we’d head east toward the Hudson Valley, but it looks like it’s going to be quite cold and rainy. Our plan is to have no plan because that’s the best plan. But a recent article, in the New York Times, inspired me in different travel destination ….HOME….I think we’ll just pick a different Finger Lakes destination each day and see what it has to offer. I was sent a link to an article from The New York Times, that was just fantastic. It even listed some of our favorite places here in Penn Yan, like Amity Coffee, The Blue Heron bakery and of course, the Outlet Trail. So I think we’ll try to hit up Seneca Falls, and see the museum of women suffrage. Perhaps we’ll check out a few new wineries or perhaps roll around Watkins Glen or Ithaca and pack a luncheon maybe revisit the beautiful town of Skaneatlas …day trips. It’s what folks do now.
With peace,
John Bernunzio.
Wherever we go, we will be close to home!