New CMS and Photos of My Trip To Letchworth State Park - Last Trip of 2021

So my travel blog is up and running. I finally have the Content Management System (CMS) I've always wanted. That's really what WordPress is, a CMS that really helps you sort and present your content. Now that the travel blog is up and auto-posting to Hive with the Exxp WP app, I omitted photo galleries and Youtube posts from being posted to Hive. In the case of Youtube, all that content gets posted to my 3Speak, and I wasn't sure how the galleries would load through the Exxp WP app so I omitted them.

I'll post my image galleries to Hive manually, plus include the stories behind them. I like that idea better anyway. Hive deserves original content anyway and I love sharing my stories with you all.

So now that the blog is up and running I started adding image galleries. I love the fact that I'll have all my content in one place, searchable, and indexed by keyword.

Somehow I lost a lot of content from my trip to Letchworth State Park last November. It was the last trip of 2021. It was freezing cold in November and when I got home I just tossed all my stuff in storage and didn't look at it again until around February 🤣 In the meantime, photos got deleted from the phone, action cams got misplaced, and footage lost! Hopefully that all ends now.

So here I am taking a selfie in front of the ravine in Letchworth State Park. I think that would be considered a ravine, maybe a canyon? If you're ever in the western part of New York state I'd highly recommend checking out this state park especially if you're fortunate enough to visit around autumn.

There were several overlooks throughout the park. Each one with a more spectacular view than the last.

The wall keeps people from falling over the cliff. I'd like to find out about hiking here. I'm pretty sure off-roading is prohibited. Would be cool to hike to the bottom and get some pictures looking up. Maybe next time.

I'm pretty sure I posted this one here before, but I wanted to include it, I love the autumn colors in the background. I should have edited this one more to pull out some of the tree colors.

There were 2 waterfalls that I found. This was the smaller one. The larger one is further back near the upper right-hand corner beneath the bridge.

This waterfall was really something to see. The image doesn't really do it justice. I loved the way the water reflects off the mist though. I believe there's another falls behind the bridge that is barely visible through the mist.

LOL, I look like a spaceman. I edited these in GiMP and made a mistake when playing with the "Curves" setting. I thought it was a happy, trippy mistake and added it to the gallery. The good news is, that I know what I did and can repeat this with other images.

So camping was closed in the park but Ossian National Forest was only 20 minutes away. It's state forest with free camping. I did a post about this trip before on here. I nearly froze to death. Not really, but it was pretty bad. It made me re-visit my sleeping bag choices in early spring and late autumn! I won't be making that mistake again.

So this was the first gallery posted to my new blog. I wanted to share it here with all my favorite Hivians! The 2022 riding season is here and I've already got some trips planned. I should have some fresh travel content coming soon. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend everyone!