Most of my Rhinecliff adventure happened in Hudson and in Rhinebeck.

Joyce, my mom, wanted to go to New York City, so Kim and I got her a train ticket to visit my brother John and his girlfriend Carla. So, today, this morning, I took her to Hudson to get on the train. We arrived on time and the train was late. She had two bags, one of them heavy, and a pocketbook and another smaller bag. So, I helped her on the train with the bag. As I was putting the bag onto the train, the train started moving. I threw my mothers bag into the rack and sprinted towards the conductor and the nearest exit. The train was moving and I was jumping. Needless to say, they wouldn’t let me jump. The train was probably only going 5 miles an hour but it also might have been ten.

I rode the train to Rhinecliff. One of the conductors gave me a yellow tag with a handwritten message saying that I could board the return to Hudson. How nice. In the meantime, I was hungry and there is nothing in the Hamlet of Rhinecliff to eat, especially near the train station. I was told this by the Amtrak ticket agent who probably also lived in Rhinecliff. Such a beautiful little town.

Ernie, the cabbie who took me to Rhinebeck, said that there was the Mobile station in Rhinecliff. Such a nice, picturesque little hamlet and only Mobile ham sandwiches to eat. He took me to Foster’s Tavern, in Rhinebeck. I had always wanted to eat there but we always either ate at Terrapin or at the inn, the Beekman Arms, that’s there. Ernie said it was too froufrou, too chichi. I can’t imagine what he would have said of us. We, perhaps, are just too too. 😉

The tavern food was pretty good and hit the spot. I had a ginger ale with the French Dip I had ordered. The fries were very good. Then I went shopping to the local coffee and candy shop, forgot the name. I stopped in at Periwinkle to get some nice bath salts and then had a sugar free cherry cordial, not bad, and a mocha latte with soy.

Then Ernie picked me up at the coffee shop and took me back to Rhinecliff. The trip was uneventful except I lost my cell phone in the cab. Ernie is mailing it to me. I suspended the account for now. I hope it gets here quickly.

That’s my amazing Rhinecliff Adventure. My mom made it to Penn Station but was an hour late. Carla was waiting for her when she got off. And that all happened before the space aliens landed. Hey, I did say it was an amazing adventure. 😉