Lisa
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First Official Acadia Hike
We moved Usain to the Seawall Picnic parking area this morning because it is out of the trees for Dishy to connect so Tony can work and it is by the ocean for me to putter around. The tide is out this morning, so I can see the snails and barnacles in little tide pools.…
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Acadia, the Atlantic Ocean, and First Lobster Roll
Seawall is our first destination; we are camping here for two nights. The clean bathrooms have flush toilets but no showers. There are pay showers about a half-mile up the road at a little store. We wash up just fine in the back of the van. It’s called Seawall because of the piled up “wall”…
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We’re in Maine!!!
We continued with the scenic drives through Vermont, New Hampshire, and into Maine. The roads are two-lane, tree-lined and go through villages and towns. We drive for 10 miles or so, then turn onto another road as maps has us weave our way to Maine. No complaints – it’s beautiful country. Observed while driving: a…
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Exploring Stowe and Morrisville, VT
Iowa is too young to have the United States history you see back east, though our Native American history is very old. Stowe was founded in 1794 and we found a Revolutionary War gravesite from a New Hampshire Regiment soldier in the town cemetery. The gravestones here are very thin and most are rectangular or…
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Hiking Stowe Pinnacle trail with Janelle and Penny
We had a very curvy, frequent-road-changes, scenic drive to Stowe, Vermont today. We arrived in Thompson Park which has a walking trail through it and access to a creek, and, most importantly, shade for Usain. Tony used the afternoon to work and stay with the cats while Janelle, a former JHS colleague and friend who…
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Pre-Revolutionary War History at Crown Point, NY
Our campsite is near some French and British fort ruins at a narrow spot on the New York side of Lake Champlain where the Champlain Bridge sits. The purpose of Fort St.-Frederic, built by the French in 1734, was to stop British colonization so the French could maintain control of the lake. That worked until…
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Evening “Stroll” with a view
We drove into the Adirondack Mountain region of New York today and it is so beautiful! The outcropping rock we drove by looked like the shale we saw in MN near Duluth and it was very mossy and seeping water drips/runs down the face. The roads are tree-lined and follow along creeks, rivers and lakes.…
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Kayaking and More Wine
The Waterloo KOA campground has kayaks for rent onsite, and the canal that connects Seneca Lake to Cayuga Lake is wide and deep enough for bigger boats as one passed us on its way to Seneca Lake. There is a lock and dam in the town of Waterloo, and we kayaked to that point from…
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Fingerlakes Wine Country in New York
Our first stop today was at the Finger Lakes Welcome Center in Geneva along Lake Seneca. They actually have wine tasting right there in the visitor’s center! There are sooooo many wineries in the area it will be hard to choose in our brief time here. Put it on the revisit list:). Tony says we…
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The Rusty Nickel Brewery, Buffalo, NY
The fastest way from Michigan to New York is through Canada. The immigration officer letting us into Canada asked about tobacco and alcohol this time (last time it was weapons) and she wasn’t concerned at all about pets. She didn’t look at their immunization certificates; maybe because we were just driving through. We saw a…