2024 FALL FOILAGE TRIP UPSTATE NY

 

 

LAKE CITY SOUTH CAROLINA..... CROSSROADS COACH RV HAD ITS OWN DOG PARK - MUCH TO DARWIN'S DELIGHT.... HAD MANY DIFFERENT COLORED TENNIS BALLS! 

 

LAKE CITY- HOME TO A CHALLENGER ASTRONAUT... DR RONALD MCNAIR, WHO HAS A VERY NICE MEMORIAL PARK AT THE LIBRARY.... SAME ONE WHERE AS A KID, HE WAS DENIED THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE OUT A BOOK!!!

HANK'S HOAGIES IN SCRANTON PA, A FAVORITE PLACE FOR JOE BIDEN- OF COURSE WE HAD LUNCH HERE!!!

JOE BIDEN'S CHILDHOOD HOME IN SCRANTON PA.

AT OLD FORGE, OUR AWESOME SITE AT THE HTR ADIRONDACK CAMPGROUND, RIGHT ON THE MOOSE RIVER...

A HIKE IN THE WOODS, AT THE BUTTERMILK FALLS- NOT THE SAME NAMED ONE IN ITHACA NY (WHICH IS FAR FAR NICER...)

WE WENT ON A LLAMA TREK IN OLD FORGE...

HAD A VERY LONG THOUGHTFUL DISCUSSION WITH A VERY INTELLIGENT GOOSE!!!

.                                                                     A UNICORN TURKEY?

                                                UHHH... WHAT KIND OF A GOURD IS THIS???

                               ANTLERS LODGE AT RAQUETTE LAKE SUNY CORTLAND

AT A PARK IN ROCKY MOUNT NC, ARTISTICAL ACHEIVEMENT- GOAT HAS A BUTTHOLE!

                  WE DID THE RAFT TRIP AT AUSABLE CHASM NY AND DID THE TRAIL....

FUNNY STORY HERE.... TOOK FORTY YEARS AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, I ALMOST FORGOT ILEA AT A REST STOP!! REPEAT--- ALMOST.  HAD DRIVEN OUT OF THE REST STOP PARKING LOT.... THINKING SHE WAS IN THE RV BATHROOM LIKE SHE USES 98% OF THE TIME- HOWEVER, SHE HAD ACTUALLY WENT INTO THE REST STOP BUILDING.  AS I WAS APPROACHING THE INTERSTATE ONRAMP, A LITTLE  VOICE IN MY HEAD REMINDED ME OF SOMETHING ABOUT SHE SAID, ABOUT MAYBE GOING TO THAT REST STOP BUILDING, SO I STOPPED THE RV TO CHECK THE RV.... WHOOPZY.... SHE WAS NOT IT IT!!! SO SHE IS SHOWN HERE WALKING DOWN TO THE ON RAMP TO CATCH HER RIDE!  SORRY!!!!

 

DARWIN WAITING ON HIS 'DONUT TOY' .... ONE THAT HE INSISTED ON KEEPING A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN HE FOUND IT IN A BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK (TEXAS) CAMPGROUND.

 

DID A NICE MORNING WALK AT AN ADIRONDACK BOG.... HAD TO SOAK UP SOME SUN.

 

LUNCH AT LISA G'S IN LAKE PLACID

 

ONE FOOT 'IN THE GRAVE' AT JOHN BROWN'S GRAVESITE

 

HARRIET TUBMAN MONUMENT AT THE JOHN BROWN HOMESITE... NOTE THAT THE STAR SHE IS HOLDING REPRESENTS THE NORTH STAR THAT SHE WOULD SING ABOUT, AS THE DIRECTION FOR TRAVEL WHEN SHE WOULD ESCORT UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FOLKS

 

 

YUP- WE GOT TO SEE FROST IN LAKE PLACID (BUT NOT SNOW!) THE WEEK AFTER WE HAD LEFT THE AREA, 4 INCHES OF SNOW FELL ON WHITE FACE & ACROSS MIRROR LAKE

 

TOP OF WHITE FACE MOUNTAIN AFTER TAKING THEIR GONDOLA RIDE.

 

OUR NEW CAMPSITE AT LAKE GEORGE...

 

 

MADE THE TRIP BACK IN TIME TO WOODSTOCK NY 1969- WHICH ACTUALLY DID NOT HAPPEN IN WOODSTOCK, BUT 50 MILES AWAY IN BETHEL WOODS NY.... ILEA FONDLY REMEMBERS HER DAYS AS A HIPPIE-FLOWER CHILD!

 

BOATING ON LAKE GEORGE.....

AFTER BOATING LAKE GEORGE, AND VIEWING "THE SAGAMORE" FROM THE LAKE.....

 

THE NEXT DAY WE DROVE OVER TO THE SAGAMORE FOR LUNCH AND R&R