New York/Pennsylvania

Sun, Jun 2

After about an hour drive East, we cross the border and enter Buffalo, NY.  As we drive into Buffalo, I think of all the times I've seen in the news about how much "lake effect" snow they get here.  I'm glad I'm here now and don't have to stay around for the snow.

As soon as we can get to a place to stop, we grab our cell phones and IPAD and quickly start deciding where we're going to go from here.  We don't have a plan.  We can head Northeast, East, or Southeast.  We figuratively threw a dart and decided to head toward the finger lakes region of New York.  We had heard it was pretty and there are several state parks in the area, so off we go.

We stop for the day at near Cayuga Lake and the Cayuga Lake State Park.

We need some of these signs in Beaufort.  Better yet, the sign should read, "SLOW SENIORS PLAYING"

After settling in, we decide to drive the "Wine Trail" along the edge of the lake.  There are vineyards and wineries every mile.  We finally stop at the "Thirsty Owl" winery and spend the afternoon on their deck sampling wine and eating cheese.  A very good afternoon!

Mon, Jun 3

I had decided at this point that we'd drive about 40 miles South along the lake to Ithaca, NY, stop at another state park and find a place to leave the motorhome.

On the way here, we passed another state park on Cayuga Lake

Taughannock Falls on Lake Cayuga

But as we moved along, we figured it was to early in the day to stop, so we kept heading Southeast and ended up near Scranton, Pennsylvania at a beautiful state park.  Tonight we are at Lackawanna State Park.

Clara gets to do a couple of her favorite things, sit in the hammock and play in the fire

She stayed at it until it was dark.

Tomorrow, we'll find a place to store the motorhome for 6 weeks and Wednesday, we'll drive the CRV back to Beaufort.

Tues, June 4

We find a nice place to leave the motorhome early in the day.  There's a Y close by and some consignment shops, so off I go to the Y and Clara just loves consignment shops.

After we both finish, me with swimming and Clara with shopping, we start looking for a place for lunch and end up at William's Pies located in an old house in a little town just outside Scranton and have a series of pies.  This will be a stopping point when we come back for the motorhome.

We head back to the motorhome and start getting it ready for storage.

Later in the afternoon, Clara gets a call from Ada Shields telling her she had left her pocketbook at William's.  After getting over the shock of getting a call from Ada in North Carolina telling Clara she had left her pocketbook in a restaurant in Pennsylvania, we figure out that the restaurant owner had used Clara's cell phone to call the first name on her phone contact list.  Oh! technology.

I go back to Williams with my rum and coke and get the pocketbook.

Wed, June 5

It takes us about 3 hours to do all the moving and storing of the motorhome and we're on the road around 9 am for a 12 hour drive back to Beaufort.

The motorhome is safely tucked away until July

Fortunately, we've been listening to a great audio book which last us all the way back to NC.

Clara's glad to be back home and immediately settles into her hammock