Hello Everyone---I am entering a new age. This blog business always seemed like something I did not think I could master. Then it was brought to my attention that it is easy and I should give it a try. So what is it that I want to talk about at this time. Well, it is the travels that I do with my husband. We have a 36 foot fifth wheel hooked to a white GMC truck and we travel most of the year since we have retired in 2005. We discarded all excess baggage and live in our 5th wheel full time. We do not have a home per say--this is our home.
Right now we are traveling from Ohio to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
This is journal I had started before I finally made the decision to start this blog.
Monday August 23, 2010
Well, we began our trip this morning. We had been at Louisville, Ohio, since August the 16th. We spent a week visiting with Adam and Eric and their families who live in the area. We went to the Amish area and picked up a quilt which my mother embroidered last winter and I had the Amish ladies quilt it by hand. It is absolutely beautiful.
We began our trip at about 8:30 this morning. The hook up went well and the drive was uneventful. We arrived at Akron, New York at about 2:30 this afternoon. So you can say we traveled from Akron, Ohio to Akron, New York in one day. Our dear friends who were going to go with us on this trip had to postpone their trip because of Susan’s sudden surgery. She is doing well, but needs some “recup” time. We will try to meet them at Cape Cod later next month.
Trivia: We paid $2.83 for diesel fuel in Canton, Ohio and $3.19 in New York. We traveled along route 90 which took us thru the wine country along Lake Erie. We saw many many fields of grape vines.
When we arrived in Akron, N.Y it was 66 degrees and misty rain. We may go from air conditioning to fire place. Hope not-- we are not ready for that kind of change.
August 24, 2010
We traveled from Akron, New York to Clayton, New York. Clayton is along the St. Lawrence Seaway. We began our trip today at 8 a.m. and arrived at Clayton at about 1:30 pm. We traveled on I-90 and saw some farms on gentle rolling hills with corn fields and hay as their main crops. As we traveled north on Route 81 to the St. Lawrence 1000 Islands area, we saw some farms near Watertown. The farmers seemed to carve fields out of the waste lands. The further north nearing the seaway we saw a lot of woodlands with pine and other deciduous trees. Next to the forests we saw marshes and then more trees. We did not see any agriculture in the area except for some large hay bales in grass fields. The further north we went we saw some of the trees beginning a slight change of color.
Our tour of St. Lawrence 1000 Islands area started at 1:30 p.m. and ended at 8 p.m. Needless to say, we were very tired by the time we came back to our home. We went to Alexander Bay which was about 12 miles east of our home. The area was busy with tourists, so we went directly to the tour boat. We chose a 2 ¼ hour tour of two nations which began at 3 pm. The tour was very well done and very interesting. The tour guide gave us a history of every island as we past them. At the end of the tour we were dropped at Heart Island and we toured the Boldt Castle. The Boldt Castle is known for the husband who started to build the castle for his wife, but after a year of building the castle his wife died suddenly of consumption. He was so grief stricken that he call a halt to the building of the castle. In later year the second owner of the island gave it to the State of New York and they refurbished the castle. They have the outside and the grounds of the castle completely restored but the inside is a work in progress. After the castle tour we were picked up by a shuttle and brought back to our original dock. This was the end of a very interesting and enjoyable day. Walt even enjoyed the castle tour-this usually is not his cup of tea.
Trivia: Paid a $21 toll to travel the New York I-90. The diesel we bought off of 81N was $3.13 per gallon.
August 25, 2010
Happy Birthday Zach!! Our third grandchild is 19 years old today. Oh, My!!!
We left Clayton by truck (not pulling our home) for a tour of Lake Placid. It was a 3 hour drive thru the Adirondark Mountain area. Route 3 was a very nice road and the scenery was of lakes, wetlands and forests. Lake Placid is a very small city which is next to a beautiful lake. The tourist shopping area was directly next to the lake. We ate lunch in an outdoor terrace and then shopped for a few hours. I did not buy anything but did do a lot of browsing.
When we left town we drove to the Olympic training center but it had nothing for us to see. We then drove to the Olympic Snow Ski Jump. We took a ski lift up to the top of the hill and then an elevator up the tower to the start area. There was a young man, who everyone seemed to know, doing some jumps. He left the gates and bent over his skis and flew down to the landing area. He must have nerves of steel to do such a jump. Their goal is to be going 60 miles an hour when they go into the air. Absolutely crazy!!! I wonder where his mother was. Ha Ha.
Trivia:
Diesel Fuel was $3.09 a gallon in Clayton.
August 26, 2010-Drive to Vermont
Our trip from Clayton, N.Y. to South Hero, Vermont was from 8:15 am to 1:30 pm. We traveled on Route 12 which was is parallel to the St. Lawrence Seaway. The scenery was great when we could look down at the St. Lawrence Seaway. The land is a gentle roll with some farms active as crop farms and run down barns and houses which at one time were small farms with dairy. It is so sad to see the loss of these small family farms. (our interest in farms is that we have a farm and grew up on farms-my husband also has worked for the family farmers most of his life)
Alert---we finally saw a Walmart at Ogdensburg, New York –Walt could not understand why I was interested in this bit of trivia. Well, you usually see a Walmart when you travel and some RVers can not wait to see one so they can park for the night. So after not seeing one for 3 full days it was a spot of interest.
On Route 11 we saw more active agriculture-we saw Corn, hay and working farms which were large and small. We even saw dairy farms and cows grazing in the fields. At Crateaugay New York we saw a Wind Farm with many large wind generators.
As we were driving down the peninsula to our park we passed a marina and then followed Rt. 11 to a draw bridge which took us to South Hero, Vermont. This is our place to park our home for the night. Later we drove about an hour to a farmers home near Burlington, Vermont. He worked with Walt for many years and it was great catching up with him and hearing about his farm. He has a 300 acre organic dairy farm. In Vermont there are 200 organic dairy farms out of 1000 dairy farms. Vermont is 23rd in the production of milk in the U.S.
Trivia:
Waddington, New York is the carp capital of the world.
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