Adirondacks

Rained last night. Roads were wet when we started out. For breakfast we stopped in a a one calendar cafe in the village of Three Mile, but they deserved to be at least a two calendars. In the cafe we met snowbirds Jim and Kim, who live in Florida in the winter and here in the summer in a small cottage. They were real interested in our trip, the waitress was too. Jim says the fishing in the lake is good. We travel through Watertown were we practiced Bockism and buy some books for $0.69 each at a second hand store. Then we started climbing into the Adirondacks. The Adirondacks are very beautiful, forested with numerous rivers amd lakes. It is also low in population, strange when you think of New York State having so many people. After a long day we finally reached Cranberry Lake which has a few campgrounds. We check with a private campground, they tell us they don’t deal with tents. This attitude is starting to bug us. Here where the USA is ready to stop offshore drilling, campgrounds cater to the big monster motorhomes, they get the best level spots. Tent campers get the shaft, hillsides, off in the boonies, often same rates as power hog home on wheels. Sometime tents are not even allowed at all.
The lakes here are gems, not reservoirs but true lakes without bathtub rings. We end up at a state park campground. There are a lot of notices that bears are a problem so we tied our food in a tree. It is also strange, in this huge state park campground there is only one other campsite being used, and it is mid-June… weird.
Enjoy..,

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