Out Your Left Window: Recent Episodes
Thomas Clark
Did you ever drive on the road ahead thinking about the history, geology or culture of the places you are passing by? Ever wonder why people settled here? What do they do for a living, what important events happened here a century ago? Why is the terrain so hilly, flat, wet or dry? Finally Out Your Left Window will provide you with the info and entertain you along the way. Hopefully this will make the ride not just informative but enjoyable with some trivia and humor thrown in along the way.
We learn that the 1969 Woodstock Festival took place no where near Woodstock New York.
On our right we pass by the Storm King Arts Center and why you may want to visit here one day
And as we pass through the mountain ridge to the west, yours truly recounts his encounter with a rattlesnake that blocked his path home one sunny day in October.
We enter the Ramapo Mountains and pass Route 17 and the Ramapo River on our left. We learn that General George Washington lost his timepiece in Harriman State Park and why it might not be so easy to locate it today. Thinking of opening up on Iron Mine? This might be a good place to locate it. And how did a common item of men's formal attire earn its name from somewhere that will be passing out our Left Window?
Driving through the Nyacks and into Rockland County we encounter the headwaters of the Hackensack River, the start of New Jersey's Garden State Parkway and the origins of the unfortunately named towns of Suffern and Sloatsburg.
Across the Hudson River and into Rockland County. This segment describes the sound barriers, the demographic of the county and the Hackensack and Ramapo rivers.
This is the first leg of the New York State Thruway-Northbound describing the history of the Hudson River and why the Saw Mill Parkway is so named.
Hello. This is the introduction to Out Your Left Window, the travel podcast that accompanies you on your ride and describes the history and things you will see along the way!
Ever wonder how those towns you pass ever got their names? What do the inhabitants do for a living? What notable events took place here? What about the wildlife? The geology? Tell me something humorous to break up the tedium.
If you are like me, you have driven these roads too many times to count and always had questions but never had the time to really understand the land you are passing over at 65 miles per hour.
Well look no more. You have arrived. Enjoy!
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