Blogs from Thousand Islands, New York, United States, North America

Hi Again On the way home from Niagra Falls we visited a place called Thousand Islands,we took an hours boat trip at 8am in the morning. Thousands Islands constitutes an Archipelago of 1864 Islands,that straddles the Canadian-US border in the Saint Lawrence River,as it emerges from the Northeast corner of Lake Ontario. There was some amazing homes on this stretch of water,some weird ones ,some stunning,this is where the most wealthy have had these houses built, Many of them today are Hotels for the tourist trade. We spent a another night in New York and next morning got a taxi down to the free ferry that takes you to a Staten Island on the way on the ferry there is good view of the Statue of Liberty,we finished doing that, and then we wenot to ground ... read more

Memorial weekend. Spencer e mailed a couple of sites before we left the UK and one had mentioned that it can get busy around then and we should book. Unwilling to be tied down to where exactly we would be, I poo poo'd it with 'I'm sure we'll get in somewhere. They can't ALL be full.' This presented Spencer with a number of opportunities.... First his predictions of doom would come true; second it would be a crisis to overcome and third (but by no means least) I would be proven wrong and the words 'I told you so' could be thought (but never actually articulated, of course). We were heading for the St Lawrence River which feeds in to the top of Lake Ontario. We found a state campsite (always our preference), Keewaydin State Park, ... read more

Here is the link to our tracking device we will use this year. Once on the trail (start 1 May) we will update our position twice daily at a minimum. Lunch time and at the end of the day. We will also update at state lines and such. http://share.findmespot.com/shared/gogl.jsp?glId=0GzkzKZdmy7ngYeKQAlt24bTBTBUIKFmd Just copy the above and paste it to the address bar, then off you go. I find the "Hybrid" view best, shows the satellite photo with the names of things pasted on top. We have all the 14 food resupply boxes packed, transportation to and from the trail set up. Now time to do the final check of all the rest of our gear and visit with friends and family for the last few days at home. Thanks to all the subscribers for following along our ... read more