Well, we left Portsmouth Ohio on June 23rd and made it to Pittsburgh and enjoyed watching the Pirates beat the Yankees 12 to 5. We saw Mazeroski throw the 1st pitch and they had the 3rd largest crowd in the history of PNC Park. The Pirates ball park is really nice and we had great weather.
We then headed for Niagra Falls, NY. Our 1st day there was spent on a tour of the Canadian side and there is a lot to see. We did the Maid of the Mist boat ride and got soaked by the spray next to the falls. They are spectacular. My old friend Mitch Herron of Air force days (1951) lives in Toronto and the next day he took a bus from Toronto and met us on the Canadian side. We had a great time recanting those days when we had no cares in the world. Note the picture below of the "Drive Thru Pet Wash" business near our RV park! Made us laugh out loud!!
We left Niagra and went to Cooperstown, NY. We had dinner with Logan's other Grand parents (Larry & Bonnie Rivenburg) in Norwich, NY our 2nd night there and enjoyed a delicious Italian meal with them as well as a tour of Norwich. The next day we toured the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Fenimore Art Museum and the Farm Museum. The art museum is one of the best we've seen. The Baseball Hall of fame is really something to see and relive the history. I was a great fan of James Fenimore Cooper and read all of his Leather Stocking tales. "White man passed here many moons ago." Our RV site near Cooperstown was beautiful and pleasantly quiet - we even had four tiny chipmunks eat two bird feeders full of our bird seed while we were there! Tiger had a great time watching them ...
Larry & Bonnie
On July 3rd we headed for the Adirondacks and Schroon Lake. This was one of our real experiences. The "RV" park turned out to be a very busy, crowded, dirty, and loud campground in the middle of a small pine forest and we were the only Class A motor home in the park. Our site was so uneven that our right rear wheel was about 2 feet in the air after leveling and we had campers literally 8 or 10 feet on both sides with radios, camp fires and one even had a small refrigerator plugged into the power pole! We did visit Blue Mountain Lake and the Adirondack Museum - both very nice. On July 4th we went to the fireworks display at Schroon Lake and it was wonderful ... we had pretty low expectations since Schroon Lake is such a small community, but they did the fireworks display up in a big way - complete with a colors marching guard, full choir, videos, and over 300 fireworks -- we know there were around 300 fireworks, as we had a young boy near us counting them out one by one -- loudly and with great enthusiasm! It was a wonderful evening of "True Americana" - and warmed our hearts deeply. On Sunday, we visited Fort Ticonderoga - it was very well preserved, and we even enjoyed a Fife and Drum group entertaining the guests there.
We left Schroon Lake yesterday and we are now in Randolph, Vermont at a beautiful site and will stay here for a week. On our way here we passed a number of "Moose Crossing" signs but didn't see any. Our RV space is on lush green grass, and overlooks Lake Champagne - it's gorgeous, and a welcome treat from our pine forest spot in Schroon Lake!
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