Last getaway for Jim and Ruth. A trip to Massachusetts New Hampshire and Maine via Ohio Pennsylvania and New York. Its time to end the trailering with this trip. Anyone want to buy a 15-year-old trailer in good shape?
The first day was quite uneventful traveling from Grand Rapids through Toledo and Cleveland to the small town at The edge of Pennsylvania called Conneaut. It was one short overnight in a very quiet campground and a very long trip for us covering some 370 miles. We were both pretty tired when we got there. So The advice is shorter trips, and the rest of the trip was scheduled that way. The second day was more to our liking with the forests of southern New York similar to Pennsylvania, at least we thought so, as the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains begin to rise more the further we drove east.
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| Entering central NY on I-90. Foothills of Catskills. |
One of the more fascinating pieces of geology is the Genesee Valley that was first inhabited by the Seneca tribes of the Iroquois nation. Of course in the "Treaty of Tall Trees, 1789", the Seneca were moved out of that area and speculators were given thousands of acres of the land to sell to settlers coming west. There are so many sad stories about the treatment of our native people. Don't get me started. DO NOT HAVE BROADBAND HERE SO UNABLE TO DOWNLOADPHOTOS...TOMORROW? So tonight we are settled just outside of Corning New York in a little Town called Campbell. Hence the park name Camp Bell campground. We are tucked away in the farthest corner near a huge woodlot so it is very quiet. At this time of year they're not many temporary campers moving in and out of the Parks, and all of the seasonal campers come only on the weekends. Lower New York state is very wooded as a few of these photos will indicate. There's not much else to give pictorially. As we usually do our stops for lunch that are brief and usually in the trailer. On Monday we did stop at Hardees in one of the mandatory rest areas on I-90. Not our favorite lunch. Today we ate in the trailer and ate what we wanted. Tomorrow we continue eastward heading for western Massachusetts, as Massachusetts is slightly south of New York. We hope to be in Sandwich, MA, by Thursday. That's a starter for this blog and I probably won't submit tomorrow, but again after I get to the East Coast. Sandwich is just less than a half mile from the coast. Fact I never new.... St. Bonaventure U is in Allegheny NY just off I-90. THey had a great Basketball team and were in the finalfour in the late 60's and 1970. It is opersted, still, by the Franciscans. . Blessings to all
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