First day of our Journey!

Here we are at Whispering Pines Campground in Greenfield Center, New York! (Murtle is on the post beside me! She feels right at home, there is a small pond just across the road!)

What an adventure so far! It is great not having any particular destination. We started out about 8:30AM this morning. We had everything packed and ready to go. Stopped in Lisbon for breakfast, met Bill and said our good-byes.

Of course we had to stop at Rite-Aid in Woodsville for a few last minute things, then we can't go by without stopping at Blackmount John Deere Tractor Dealership.

Then on with our journey! We headed toward Hanover on Route 10. NUVI (our navigational device) decided to take us to Glens Falls NY (after I programmed it into her). We made one wrong turn, but since we were still in NH we knew where we were going. Thought that we would just follow her directions anyway, but she wanted us to go over a covered bridge. We thought our weight limit might be too much for the bridge, so we continued on further south and took another bridge.

We stopped for lunch at a rest stop in Vermont. There were two truckers with their rigs running, we figured they were napping. Bet their rigs had air, because the temperature was 97 degrees at that time. We ate quickly, guzzled down some ice cold water and headed on our way. The truck was nice and cool.

After that we headed across Vermont. We went by Okemo Mountain. Maybe some day I will ski there. I had seen it many times from our trip back from Marlow. From Okemo we went into Rutland then continued on to New York on Route 4. When we got to Glens Falls...(now I know you are going to ask, "Why Glens Falls?" and the answer is, " I mapped out about 150 mile blocks and that is where we ended up") we started looking for info on campgrounds.

The sky was getting dark and we really thought that we would have to set up camp in the rain, but lucky for us, we got set up with just a few sprinkles. We put the TV on and heard that there were thunderstorm warnings just below us in Albany. Sever warnings, but not here. Hope our luck stays this way for the whole trip.

We ate dinner, went for a walk around the campground and chatted with our neighbor campers. I hope to meet lots of nice people along the way. They were from New Jersey and photography was a hobby for them. There were on their way to a wedding where they were giving the pictures as the gift. (Oh, we introduced Murtle to them, and they will be checking the blog, too!) (Hi neighbors!)

Tomorrow we head out for the other side of New York. I am hoping that it will be a tad cooler. I think we are headed toward Elmira, but of course, that is subject to change at any time.