Niagara Falls

I had to fly to Niagara Falls for a one day meeting, and since my hotel was a few blocks from the American side of the Falls, I walked down in the morning to see what I could see. It was bitterly cold, but due to the rapid flow of the water, the falls were still dramatically falling, spraying cold mist into the air on me and a Japanese tourist group (the only other people there to see it that morning).

Our friend Chris Larson wrote a song a few years back with the line, "Niagara Falls you suck me dry..." I don't know exactly what the falls meant to Chris, but it can be a tiring experience to witness so much life constantly running somewhere, so fast and loud. Despite that, Jeremy and I might go back in June on our way to Pittsburgh for our friend Sena's wedding. I feel a need to understand this new state I live in a bit better, to get inside the "upstate" and "downstate" division. Niagara Falls is officially west, so we'd be going "across the state," but no matter. Road trip!