On the road to the Adirondacks...

We had just left Niagara headed for two weeks in the Adirondacks when it started raining again and Rose's windshield wiper went so far to the left of the windshield it got wrapped around the side on the drivers side and stopped working again. So.. Gary got out in the pouring rain (I wish had taken a picture of him but I was too panicked to think of it as a photo opportunity!) He readjusted the wiper and thank goodness it has worked ever since - we have had lots of opportunities to test it with all of the rain we have had!

Finally settled at the campground in Lake George.....

We stayed in the Lake George area at a very quiet and "woodsy" campground for the first week. That's where we got the microwave fixed. To our amazement ( and relief), the appliance repair centers will actually make a "house call" to a campground! We found out that the door had to be replaced and would have to be ordered. Fortunately we were staying at the campground long enough for the door to be shipped and installed- so it's working again!!

We had yet another trip to a vet in Lake George to look at Molly's infection and to get her last vaccination. The lamp shade is off!!! Little did we know when we left Atlanta that we would be going on a vet tour of the NE US and Canada. We're hoping we have had our final stop on our vet tour and that the rest of the trip will be vet free!

There was plenty of time to relax at the campground and the weather was nice and cool so we had a campfire almost every night. The pile of wood must have looked like a pile of bones to Molly because she kept hauling the sticks off the pile and chewing on them!

Gary building a fire

Molly chewing the fire kindling


Highlights around Lake George...

• Boat ride on Lake George - it's a 32 mile long lake with beautiful mountains surrounding it
• The Adirondack Museum and a tour of Sagamore - the Vanderbilt's "Great Camp" from the late 1800's - it is fascinating!
  
  
  The Sagamore "Great Camp" - fabulous architecture made of birch bark and logs built in the late 1800's.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Adirondacks Museum - The classic wooden canoes
  
  
  
  
  
  

Lovely Lupine blooming along one of our hikes

Ready for a hike to the Hudson river - lampshade and all!

Exhausted after the first half mile!








Now on to the high peaks of the Adirondacks near Lake Placid...

The second week we moved Rose to Lake Placid - just 150 miles north of Lake George. We thought this would be a really easy trip up but boy were we surprised! We had just left the campground, maybe 5 minutes earlier when Rose's "check engine" light came on. Needless to say we were not prepared for yet another problem with Rose! Now what do we do???

We pulled over to the side of the road and called Coach net - the emergency road service for RVs. They said they would have a technician call us right back. Well - it seemed like an eternity before they called us back but it was really just 10 minutes. During that time my mind was racing with all of the possibilities of what could be wrong and what will we do....They explained that it was probably an emission sensor and we could keep driving it and the light would probably go out. They said if it started blinking to stop immediately. So - we started Rose up again and got back on the road with the light still on but thankfully not blinking. Shortly after we were back on the road we hit a bump in the road and the light went out and has never come on again! So - we've decided that every time we have a problem, we just find a bump in the road and drive Rose over it and the problem will go away! Easy peasy!!

Highlights of the high peaks of the Adirondacks...

• The beautiful scenery with lakes, rivers, mountains and waterfalls. It was as beautiful as we had hoped it would be! It is truly an outdoor paradise for hiking, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, biking and all kinds of winter sports too!
• Hikes with Molly to the Hudson river and a waterfall
• A drive to the summit of Whiteface mountain
• The Lake Placid Olympic ski jumping venues
• Dinner with Bob and Julia - new friends we met on our trip to Asia in April

A beautiful walk in High Falls Gorge

With our friends Bob and Julia having a lovely dinner of fresh rainbow trout with a view of the falls

Top of the ski jump at Lake Placid

Ski jumper practicing at Lake Placid

At the summit on Whiteface Mountain

Next stop... Montreal, Quebec City and New Brunswick!