Cooperstown

The centre of the Baseball business - and it's big business here with the Hall of Fame, loads of shirts and bats and other stuff - but watching a practice session - I still could not work it out - I asked one of the 100s of fans / enthusiasts visiting - why the batsman did not even attempt to hit the ball - he said - I dunno - in my opinion even more boring than test match cricket.

The New York State is blessed with lakes, waterfalls, forests and woods - here we relaxed as on many occasions by the side of the lake - this time it was lake Otsego.