~~Take a week or a long weekend and follow the road less traveled. Fall into the past as you cruise past lighthouses of an era gone by. Fall Into the present as you take in the NYC   
skyline while departing Chelsea  piers at sunset . Few New Yorkers have cruised the Hudson River at night. Spectacular history unfolds and is a fully lit Statue of Liberty, Colgate sign Empire State Building, Freedom Tower just to name a few.  The first bridge you cruise under is the George Washington bridge.  Keep a lookout for the little red lighthouse under the bridge. A children's story book was written about this lighthouse.  Do you know the name? Next is the Tapanzee bridge. Once clear the river twist and turns and soon you are in the center  of the Catskills. Next is Baker mountain spectacular countryside and the dramatic rising of the walls of West Point .The historic town of  Cold springs, Woodland Trail, Boscobel House and Gardens-boscobel.org , Montgomery Place, Kykuit  Rockefeller Estate-~~http://www.hudsonvalley.org/historic-sites/kykuit/tours . Dozens of  churches,museums, art gallerys and famous  houses. Activbities include hiking,birdwatching,  biking,  kayaks paddle board, waterskiing, wakeboard,  amd jet skis. Book this trip today before the winter darkness closes in  on us.