BACKROADS • APRIL 2022
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Your Spring Fling
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Places to Explore. Things to Experience. Roads to Ride.
s Spring comes rolling in, we thought we’d offer a few suggestions of places to go and things to see for the beginning of the 2022 riding season here in the northeast. Indeed it is fine and good to simply get out and ride and, many times, the beauty is just the ride itself, but a fun destination can make it all the better so let us toss out a few suggestions…
The Mysteries of O’ Life’s Mysterious America
What an odd duck our man O’Life is and over the years he has written about some very odd, strange, and sometimes unbelievable places. When he heard we were writing a Spring Fling piece he wanted in and thought this spring he would remind you of some of them. Each one of them is amazing in its own way so clear your calendar and follow along the backroads of Mysterious America with the good doctor. Take it away, Seymour…
THE MYSTERY SPOT OF LAKE GEORGE 10 BEACH RD, LAKE GEORGE, NEW YORK
If you live in the northeast and like big rallies, I am sure you have been to Americade up in Lake George, but there is a very odd spot to be found right where Route 9 meets Beach Road; very odd indeed and I’ll wager, unless you are privy to this, that you have walked right past it a hundred times. Behind the Lake George Visitor Center there is a circular platform with a painted blue map of the lake and a compass pattern etched in. In the exact center of the circle, two metal rails cross each other in the middle of the map, forming a literal “X” that marks the mystery spot. Stand here and you’ll witness, or rather hear, a strange natural phenomenon that seems to defy the laws of acoustics.
