{"id":1702,"date":"2013-08-28T02:59:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T07:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2019-04-26T09:17:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:17:57","slug":"technically-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/technically-day-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Technically\u2026 (day three)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22.3&#8243;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22.3&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22.4&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>\u2026this post should be called Adirondacks &#8211; Day three, but as I am no longer in the Adirondacks, it seems odd to refer to today by that nomenclature. \u00a0I certainly did <em>wake up<\/em> in the Adirondack mountains this morning. But I am currently in Montpelier, Vermont, having driven out of New York State, escaping by ferry across Lake Champlain.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped first, this morning, at a local attraction in New York called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonebridgeandcaves.com\">Natural Rock Bridge and Caves<\/a>.&#8221; This description was just too much to pass up, and I pulled in. \u00a0Run by a very nice family who have gone to great lengths indeed to make the place fun to spend an hour or more crawling over and under rocks and roots and branches. \u00a0They really have done the place well, by nature, and have an extensive gift store that had lots of great and interesting stuff, like geodes (cut to order) and fossilized shark teeth and so on.<\/p>\n<p>A second stop in the afternoon at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortticonderoga.org\">Fort Ticonderoga<\/a>\u00a0was very interesting and well worth a stop-over as well. i hadn&#8217;t planned on stopping there, but I was very glad I did. It has connections to Quebec City, having first been built by th eFrench, then taken by the English, then the Americans, then the English again, then the Americans\u2026 it gets kind of confusing. \u00a0Its been brilliantly restored (from what look like shards of building walls at the end of the 19thC) and was fun to wander through and check out the stuff they have found during various excavations (as well as imported stuff from elsewhere like muskets and so on) to show the period. \u00a0The sheer number of cannon is crazy. \u00a0I stopped counting at 25, but I think there might be 40 or so. It was very well defended, indeed. But fell nonetheless initially to the English, who moved heaven and earth to get cannon up the backside of a peak a helluva ways away and bombard the fort. \u00a0Its hard to believe, standing on the ramparts today, that cannon shot from the remote peak could have ended up where I was standing. I was amazed, and suddenly had much greater respect for cannon fire than I had previously.<\/p>\n<p>So, the photos from today:<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.22.4&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22.4&#8243;][et_pb_gallery show_title_and_caption=&#8221;off&#8221; box_shadow_style_image=&#8221;preset1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22.4&#8243; gallery_ids=&#8221;2556,2555,2554,2553&#8243;][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026this post should be called Adirondacks &#8211; Day three, but as I am no longer in the Adirondacks, it seems odd to refer to today by that nomenclature. \u00a0I certainly did wake up in the Adirondack mountains this morning. But I am currently in Montpelier, Vermont, having driven out of New York State, escaping by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>\u2026this post should be called Adirondacks - Day three, but as I am no longer in the Adirondacks, it seems odd to refer to today by that nomenclature. \u00a0I certainly did <em>wake up<\/em> in the Adirondack mountains this morning. But I am currently in Montpelier, Vermont, having driven out of New York State, escaping by ferry across Lake Champlain.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped first, this morning, at a local attraction in New York called \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonebridgeandcaves.com\">Natural Rock Bridge and Caves<\/a>.\" This description was just too much to pass up, and I pulled in. \u00a0Run by a very nice family who have gone to great lengths indeed to make the place fun to spend an hour or more crawling over and under rocks and roots and branches. \u00a0They really have done the place well, by nature, and have an extensive gift store that had lots of great and interesting stuff, like geodes (cut to order) and fossilized shark teeth and so on.<\/p>\n<p>A second stop in the afternoon at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortticonderoga.org\">Fort Ticonderoga<\/a>\u00a0was very interesting and well worth a stop-over as well. i hadn't planned on stopping there, but I was very glad I did. It has connections to Quebec City, having first been built by th eFrench, then taken by the English, then the Americans, then the English again, then the Americans\u2026 it gets kind of confusing. \u00a0Its been brilliantly restored (from what look like shards of building walls at the end of the 19thC) and was fun to wander through and check out the stuff they have found during various excavations (as well as imported stuff from elsewhere like muskets and so on) to show the period. \u00a0The sheer number of cannon is crazy. \u00a0I stopped counting at 25, but I think there might be 40 or so. It was very well defended, indeed. But fell nonetheless initially to the English, who moved heaven and earth to get cannon up the backside of a peak a helluva ways away and bombard the fort. \u00a0Its hard to believe, standing on the ramparts today, that cannon shot from the remote peak could have ended up where I was standing. I was amazed, and suddenly had much greater respect for cannon fire than I had previously.<\/p>\n<p>So, the photos from today:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"Adirondacks24.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Adirondacks24.jpg\" alt=\"Adirondacks24\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"Adirondacks25.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Adirondacks25.jpg\" alt=\"Adirondacks25\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" border=\"0\" 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