Blogs from Finger Lakes, New York, United States, North America - page 2

We started out our "road trip" on Saturday, 10/9, arriving from the Jersey Shore to Ithaca, NY for a week long venture to see waterfalls and Fall foliage. After a good six hour ride, having awoken at the crack of dawn, we arrived at our first destination around noon at Robert H. Treman State Park at the lower gorge section where we saw an impressive lower falls and began a journey up the gorge which was essentially a steep climb up a mountain. After approximately a half of a mile or more of primarily just woods, we decided to head back to the car and drive to the upper gorge entrance before one of us had a heart attack. (By the way, I had suggested we start at the Upper Gorge, but our Map Quest directions ... read more

At 9:25AM on Monday, August 16th we cast off the dock lines and headed for the Erie Canal! It was a great start as we had a beautiful day with clear skies (after the early AM storm). We know that there has been quite a dry spell of information on the blog but we have been kept very busy with numerous activities that we will later fill you in on. We have just finished the 2nd day in the Erie Canal and stopped tonight in Ilion NY as we now have a wi-fi connection to catch up on lots of business so wanted to just post a quick note to let everyone know that we have started our journey! Will follow up with another entry in the near future to catch you up on what has ... read more

We know we promised to let you know when our “open house “ at our new home would be. It has been hard to predict when we will be in a position to have anyone see our new home, but have decided we need to make a decision so you can check your calendars. We have been working like crazy continuing to pack, sell and donate all that we have accumulated over the close to 36 years of marriage (and even some of the items are from before that!) Had quite a bit of our furniture and other belongings taken away by an auction house this month - sort of a strange feeling to see everything leaving at once, but it definitely cleaned out the big items in the house quickly. We are also starting to ... read more

We’re heading home and made a last minute adjustment to the itinerary. We're skipping Gettysburg this year and heading from Lexington to Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland and along Lake Erie toward Buffalo and New York's Finger Lakes wine region. We “dry camped” at a Flying J Truck Stop in Ashtabula, Ohio, along with close to a dozen other RVers, mostly "seasonal re-locators" (one new term for “snow birds”) heading back to Ontario, Quebec, New York and other points north. Decent takeout pizza from the Flying J! First stop is Cayuga Marina and Campground. Getting in with a hairpin turn and a sharp incline doesn’t make for a great arrival; so we drove on … until we were passed by a vehicle following us. The driver somehow had intuited that we were “goin’ to Gils,” and kindly offered ... read more

We know it has been awhile since our last entry, however, things definitely slowed down with the boat with the onset of cold winter weather. Tsamaya did get moved into a shed as we had wanted but unfortunately it doesn’t have a door as they couldn’t get her in to that one! It shouldn’t be a problem as will still have protection from most of the elements. We went up a couple of times to be sure the winterization was done and to cover it in plastic to protect from the birds and/or animals. We had the marina take the mast off the boat and put it on stands so we can work on it at ground level. We spent time taking the lines out of the mast so we can do a full inspection of ... read more