Lake George, NY-Adirondak Adventure park

Lake George, New York.

It was an adventure trying to find our next park! We drove an extra 25 miles looking for it thanks to some newly discovered short-comings of "NIKKI" (the GPS). On the way there were beautiful back woods roads, but also things like this "aging" bridge with just one lane open...

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A wrong turn at an unmarked intersection led to crossing a one lane bridge and going down a one lane dirt road under construction. With a 20,000 lb trailer and 9000 lb truck, the bridge was a little nerve racking.

Finally! We arrived, and were happy to have the longest pull-through site yet - could even leave the truck hitched had we wanted to!

On Sunday, Carol had received an email from her cousin Peg letting her know that their other cousin, Phyllis was going to be in town (Fort Plain, NY) on Tuesday and wondering if we were anywhere near. From Lake George, it's only about 75 miles so we responded, "why not?". Carol had not seen Phyllis for 41 years!! Peg kept it a secret that we would be there, so it was quite a surprise - amazingly, Phyllis recognized Carol right away!

From the left, here is Phyllis, her husband John, Carol, Peg, and Peg's dad, Ken (93). Phyllis' dad, Austin, and Carol's mom, Elsie, were Ken's younger siblings.


We all had pictures to show and stories to tell, but before it got dark, we drove to St. Johnsville (about 7 miles down the road) where Carol's other grandparents lived. It was a very nostalgic day, and we were worn out by the time we got back to Lake George!

After resting up on Wednesday, on Thursday we took a 217 mile trip on the bikes and caught two ferries - a short one at Ticondaroga crossing from New York into Vermont again, and then at Burlington, VT, a twelve mile trip across Lake Champlain back into New York.

This first ferry runs on a cable and is pushed by a sort of tug for it's 1/4 mile crossing!

Pictures with "helmet hair" are never good...but, it was so beautiful out there on the lake, we couldn't resist including this one crossing Champlain.

And here we are arriving in Kent, NY, with the mountains of Vermont barely visible in the background.

From here we rode on over to Lake Placid, home of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics. Many of the structures are still there, including the incredible ski jumping ramps!! YIKES!

On Friday we treated ourselves to an elegant dockside dinner at The Sagamore in Bolton Landing with Ron and Janet. It has quite a history, having been built originally in the 1800s, twice burned down, and rebuilt. Carol remembers having first been there over 50 years ago with her parents who were both from New York state and used to bring the family back for camping from wherever they were living at the time.

What a great place, and a nice way to wrap up a week in this beautiful region of NY.

By the way, we did actually ride into Lake George itself on Saturday. It's still hard to picture thousands of motorcycles here as they are every year and seems best to us to be here when it's a little more peaceful!



Next we're off to the Thousand Islands!

Carol & Bruce

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