Cooperstown suggestions

There's a place sort of across the street from Doubleday Field that had the best pancakes I've ever eaten.

 

Would that be the Shortstop Diner (been decades since I went there) or are we thinking on different places?

 

I'll post on this thread just to get a "like" from HC ...

Seriously, hope you and JR have a good time in Cooperstown. That trip is on the bucket list for me.

 

I'm not a big baseball fan but I LOVE The Avett Brothers so I'm pretty psyched. I'm telling JR he needs to do the Hall of Fame because it will mean something for him. Really looking forward to some serious driving through pretty scenery too.

 

Went there for first time last week when my parents came to NYC to visit and we rented a car to drive up there. Beautiful drive. We stayed in Holiday Inn just outside of town and when we went to Hall took the trolley into town. That was fun. When we caught it on way back, we were only three on the thing and the driver gave us the little tour part of it. We didn't explore much beyond that, though, but just driving around the next day in our car was fun. My parents loved looking at the huge houses. Although dad was, like, offended that there's a Farmers Museum there. "How can that thing not be in Iowa? They don't know farming here." When we visited the Hall, we got there about 3; it's open till 9 in summer. So by 7 or so we were about only people in the entire place, at one point I walked around third floor and no one else was there. So that could be good time to go, seems like crowds thin out as day goes on.

 

We are staying at the Red Carpet Inn and Suites which is almost exactly halfway between the Hall of Fame and the Ommegang Brewery where the concert is being held. Place looks cheap but decent which, coincidentally, is what I thought about JR on our first date.

 

Doesn't ring a bell. I think it was TD's or something like that. I haven't been there in 15 years so I can't remember myself.

 

Concert and the Hall of Fame are a strong weekend. I wish I'd had time to go to the farmer's museum while I was there, but really, the HOF gives you plenty of bang for your buck. Lake Otsego is beautiful.

 

Your dad needs to read up a little on New York farming. Unless, you know, he doesn't drink milk or eat cheese.

 

Big fan of the Finger Lakes [/jduggar]

 

Drink a few Hennepins.

 

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions .... just got back last night and had a GREAT time! Their were huge thunderstorms on Friday and Sunday night but the day of the concert was hot and sunny so the field was completely dry and the evening was gorgeous for the Saturday night concert. (And if you haven't seen the Avett Brothers live, you're missing out!).

JR did the Hall of Fame and we made the pilgrimage to Brooke's BBQ in Oneonta on Sunday night which had probably the best BBQ chicken either of us have eaten. Breakfast at the Cooperstown Diner on Monday morning was great too and the only time there wan't a line to get in. Mostly I just enjoyed driving the side roads .... Upstate NY is one of the more beautiful places I have been.