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Seaway Trail Byway on Globetrotting Writer's New York Detour
In June, globetrotting travel writer Bruce Northam, who has visited more than 100 countries on seven continents, will visit Seaway Trail destinations on his "New York Detour" journey. Northam is making an overland tour of New York state for a new television series. The Seaway Trail byway along the St. Lawrence River-Great Lakes freshwater shoreline has the distinction of being named New York State's first National Scenic Byway.
The Seaway Trail destinations are part of Northam's 23-day, 2,000-mile tour designed by I Love New York tourism promoters for Northam, a native New Yorker, to rediscover his own backyard, and revive public interest in freestyle touring travel throughout the Empire State. The tour runs from June 7 to June 29. Northam is traveling by all modes of transportation, including automobile, motorcycle, kayak, horse-drawn carriage, subway, train, trolley and on foot.
Northam's itinerary calls for him to make several Seaway Trail stops, including in:
Wednesday, June 7
o Lewiston for a 65 mile per hour jet boat tour of the Niagara River
o Holley to chat with a Santa look-alike at Ridge Road Station train & Christmas shop
Thursday, June 8
o Buffalo for a bicycle tour with a two-wheel taxi driver, to lend a hand with
restoration efforts at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Darwin D. Martin estate; to talk with Charlie the Butcher, famous for serving an original Buffalo sandwich, the beef on 'weck; to fish along the Buffalo waterfront and to talk with a limousine driver about the rich and famous who have been chauffeured from Buffalo to Chautauqua Institution.
o Dunkirk for dinner at Dimitri's overlooking Lake Erie
o Chautauqua for an overnight and morning tour at Chautauqua Institution
Friday, June 10
o Rochester for the International Jazz Festival, a nine-day event featuring such headliners as Woody Allen & His New Orleans Band, James Brown and Etta James
Thursday, June 15
o Pulaski for breakfast at The Hometown Diner in the Salmon Capital of the World and a chat with Seaway Trail, Inc. President Chuck Krupke
o Oswego to board the tall ship Nina and talk maritime history with Captain Dick
Pfund of the Oswego Maritime Foundation, lunch at Rudy's on Lake Ontario
o Orwell to see the Salmon River Falls and talk with NYS Salmon River Fish Hatchery Manager Fran Verdoliva
o A narrated drive along the Seaway Trail with Seaway Trail Executive Director Teresa Mitchell
o Sackets Harbor for a tour of the 3-story, 9-room Seaway Trail Discovery Center in the former Union Hotel (1817-18) and a stroll across the street to Karen's Ice Cream Factory for a taste of Seaway Trail Harvest Berry Ice Cream, perhaps the only ice cream custom-made for one of America's Byways
o Wellesley Island for an overnight stay in a cottage at Wellesley Island State Park
Friday, June 16
o 1000 Islands region for an antique speedboat ride to Singer Castle, and
o in St. Lawrence County: a drive to Black Lake for the Crappie Marathon fishing tournament, a stop at the Heritage Cheese House, a walk with Dr. Robert Saidel to Gouverneur's "giant Lifesaver," and visit the restored 1800s Edwards Opera House.
An hour-by-hour itinerary and a daily journal of Northam's New York Detour travels will be posted on
www.iloveny.com/detour accessible via
www.seawaytrail.com.
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