Hello all, finally found a home

RB-TX · Jul 26, 2020

FastTrax said:
Born and attended school in NYC (Canarsie & Queens Village), lived on Long Island (Hempstead & Central Islip) most of my life, then moved to Hopewell Jct & Mount Vernon and ended up in Sanford Fl reliving memories gawking at the Autotrain crews. Did I miss anything?

Guess you see a big difference in Florida weather and NY weather, especially in the winter months. I spent two years on temp assignment in Poughkeepsie, NY, not far from Hopewell Jct. Used to go through Hopewell J on Saturdays to go to Green Haven to teach Dale Carnegie courses there. (That wasn't a job, just community service).

We transferred there from San Antonio, and boy, the first winter was a shock. The house we bought was on a hill with the garage below the bedrooms, sort of a split-level I guess it is called. Anyway, the drive way sloped down from the street. On the first snow fall (23 inches) the snow was four feet deep at the bottom of the driveway. I borrowed a snow shovel from a neighbor to dig my way out. We were all happy when my two years was up and we moved back to Texas.

I rather expect you are enjoying the Floriday climate about now.

FastTrax · Jul 27, 2020

RB-TX said:
Guess you see a big difference in Florida weather and NY weather, especially in the winter months. I spent two years on temp assignment in Poughkeepsie, NY, not far from Hopewell Jct. Used to go through Hopewell J on Saturdays to go to Green Haven to teach Dale Carnegie courses there. (That wasn't a job, just community service).

We transferred there from San Antonio, and boy, the first winter was a shock. The house we bought was on a hill with the garage below the bedrooms, sort of a split-level I guess it is called. Anyway, the drive way sloped down from the street. On the first snow fall (23 inches) the snow was four feet deep at the bottom of the driveway. I borrowed a snow shovel from a neighbor to dig my way out. We were all happy when my two years was up and we moved back to Texas.

I rather expect you are enjoying the Floriday climate about now.

Hi there and many thanks for the "warm" and informative welcome. I can relate to your experience being snowbound up that way. Very hot down here in the land of the skeeters and the gators. In Dutchess County those style of homes were called raised ranches and the bigger homes were called split levels. Wappingers had a bunch of colonial style homes. I lived pretty much up the road from Greenhaven Prison. I used to drink with some CO's I knew at the Tower 13 bar (since the prison had 12 towers) on the corner of Greenhaven Road and rt 216, it's now called the Greenhaven Bistro. I worked the Penn Central Maybrook Secondary from Maybrook NY to Danbury CT via the Poughkeepsie Bridge which after the 1976 fire became a linear park.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Haven_Correctional_Facility