First COVID Road Trip: Ohio, West Virginia and North Carolina
As of March 11, Marilyn and I were fully vaccinated. It took a while for us to venture out in a pre-COVID way. On March 16 we drove to Buffalo to visit the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens. The Gardens are in the Cazenovia-South Park System designed by Frederick Law Olmstead between 1894 and 1896. This system is in South Buffalo with a portion in Lackawanna. It is one of the four parks/park systems designed by Olmstead in Buffalo. Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens It was a lovely taste of spring but only on the inside. It only whetted our appetite to travel south to experience spring gardens. However, we did eat in a restaurant for the first time. We stopped at J. P. Fitzgerald's in Hamburg and had some tasty Greek food on the day before St. Patrick's Day. By March 21 we were getting more daring and were hosted by Derek and Erin at Pane Vino on the Avenue. They had reserved one of the outdoor pods and we enjoyed our food and company in our own c