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New York to Shenandoah.

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We’ve had a couple of nice beautiful travel days. It was interesting to see corn rows with mountains behind them. We stopped at a brewery for lunch in Ellicottville, NY. Highly recommend if you end up near the area. We stayed the evening at Allegheny State Park in South Western NY. This park is huge. I wished we had more time to explore here. There were bike paths and a couple of lakes. I’m sure it’s gorgeous in the fall.

Sucker for old time floors

We decided to grab some of that beautiful corn for our campground feast.

Next stop was shanondoah np, but since we were going through Maryland, we stopped for a dozen crabs.  It was 95 degrees outside, so they even let us bring our doodle in.

We are leaving loft mountain because something happened to the water and they have no showers but the campgrounds were beautiful. We are on our way to a county Park outside Abingdon called Washington county Park.

We just finished Miracle and Wonder about Paul Simon interviewed by Malcolm Gladwell. It was fabulous. Highly recommend.

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Niagra Falls

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We left Cayuga Lake after work on Monday and arrived at Four Mile Creek campground on lake Ontario, before 8. (I can’t help but wonder if these bodies of water will also be renamed by our ignorant dictator?)…

We were hungry but the Shoffners had prepared a feast! I’ve taken very few pictures of food on this trip but our campground chefs have outdone themselves.

Work buddy

I worked Monday -Wednesday but our  timing to the parks could not have been better. After work is the best time to see Niagra falls. Our parking pass at Four Mile allowed us to park at Niagara for free. We walked right onto the maid of the midst with no line.

Niagra falls on the Canadian side is a mad house, like Gatlinburg/ Coney Island on steroids. There is a street (Clifton) that was loud, crowded, and tacky. The US side is a sleepy little town. We were a little surprised to see the gaudier side of the Canadians but they sure had some great food. We ate at an amazing Indian restaurant then got to see a sunset.

Maid of the midst
Bridge to Canada. Straddling international waters
Fun Street (Clifton)

Wednesday evening we went back to Niagra on the Canadian side and stayed late enough to catch the fireworks from the Canadian side. We were a little surprised that the Americans didn’t return fire…

Falls from goat Island
See the boat? I was there.
Luna Island

Bonus, the weather early this week has been amazing. Today I think the heat is going to catch back up with us.

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Watson’s Glenn to Cayuga Lake (Finger Lakes)

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We got up early to hike before the crowds gathered in the canyon. just a few more pics from Glenn canyon.

We had lunch at grist iron for lunch on Seneca lake on our way out of town. Then we traveled north to Cayuga lake State Park.

We stopped at Hosmer and Knapp winery along the way and had a great time grabbing some wines for the trip.

So far we’ve had a great time in the finger lakes of New York.

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Pennsylvania New York

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George and I spent our first few nights of our trip in Pennsylvania at a beautiful state park Francis Slocum. The lake was u shaped and I wished we’d had a boat. We took several great walks.

We left PA after work.  George had a weird ear ache vertigo on the way to New York. He felt awful, so I pumped myself up to park the camper myself and just failed miserably. He had to bail me out. The Shoffners joined us at Watsons Glenn late last night. We took a hike this morning in the canyon. The canyon is stunning.  Here are a few pictures

Afterwards we biked to some wineries and found some dinosaurs, yeah for real, who knew such treasures awaited us.

My belly is full. My feet and butt are tired.