Jason Wilder

Beth wanted to see some fall foliage in the mountains so we headed to Ellicottville for a couple days recently. Our first trip was Warsaw for some coffee and we found a shop that had some records. I found some random 7 inches to play on Fantastic Voyage, a couple records to gift and a Prism record. I probably could have gotten more as they had a pretty big selection of older country music that probably would have had songs for Fantastic Voyage, but we had to get motoring.

Ellicottville was having a fall festival, so we went to that. I’d say at least 25% of the booths sold some sort of Buffalo Bills black market clothing or crappy crafts. We also had an amazing breakfast at Dina’s, whose food was comparable to Redd.

After dealing with the crowds at the fall fest, we took a chair lift up a mountain at Holiday Valley. We spent a couple hours people watching, listening to a pretty decent cover band and staring off into the scenery. The crowd on the mountain was very mellow, which put me in a pretty decent mood. Those chair lift buildings remind me of retrofuturism architecture. I also wish I took uo skiing when I was younger.

I pretty much hate hotels. I find them gross. It was a little torturous but I managed to relax enough. Our room had some nice local photography.

I found Beth a Bills shirt at the fall fest.

On the way home in Olean, we stopped at a good enough diner, which was next to this Monro shop that also had hair styling. Oil change and a haircut.

Then we went home and watched the Bills lose and the Dodgers win.