Posted by whiterabbit on June 13, 2003, at 17:50:47
In reply to Re: OH NO!!! - white rabbit, posted by BekkaH on June 13, 2003, at 0:46:13
West Point IS beautiful, very scenic. Twice a year all us peons - not the cadets of course - had to show up for "leaf-raking day" and that's all you did, rake mountains of leaves. We had to keep the place cleaned up for the tourists, which makes it a rather unusual Army post. I have a picture of my son when he was a toddler sitting on the back of one of the Army mascot mules.
I worked on the post but lived in a housing area off post that was some distance away, over the mountains. You could take the long, safe way home on a highway or the shorter but treacherous road that ran alongside the Hudson...beautiful in good weather, suicidal in bad weather. Lots of hairpin turns winding through the mountains, no lights, not many guardrails and a bunch of places where you could go skidding right off the mountain and it was a long, long drop into the Hudson. Of course it could be different now, that was quite awhile ago.
I didn't do much sight-seeing, I was a really busy single mother. I do remember a weekend apple-picking further upstate...the foliage was breath-taking in the fall, just glorious. It is beautiful country up there.
-Gracie
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