Oh, phooey! It’s raining. No it’s not!

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Oh, phooey! It’s raining. No it’s not!

Awaking this morning we found that it was 50 degrees inside the trailer and 42 outside. But the heater changed the inside temp rather quickly.

A rush to the wash house with the hopes you had everything you needed and a dash back to the warmth. We left at 9:30 with the hopes that we would find better at the next place.

On the way to Verona, NY, we rode along a body of water that had two of the most interesting dams on it. The first one looked like a “bridge to nowhere.” But all of a sudden the bridge ended! It didn’t reach the bank on our side of the water. That was weird.

Then I saw another one of those “bridges.” I tried to take a picture of it but I don’t know how good it is taking it inside the van on a bumpy road. I noticed that on this “bridge” the water upstream of the “bridge” was higher than the downstream side. Approaching it from the downstream side it looked like a dam. In trying to find the name of the body of water we were traveling next to we decided that, as a “best guess,” the body of water was the Erie Canal and that what I saw were two “movable dams.” Tom found this picture and explanation on the WEB. Nice catch.

The light rain or drizzle kept going in and out as the sun kept going out and in during our drive.

We just kept going today with no geocaching. We had laundry to do.

Tom told me that our new campground was just off the NY Thruway. We found a casino just off the Thruway at our exit, too. The name of the campground is The Villages at Turning Stone. In small letters at the bottom of the sign is “Enterprise of Oneida Indian Nation.” And they DO know how to make a campground! There are spaces between campsites. Everything is well manicured outside. We saw men with leaf-blowers blowing the leaves off the roadway and grass into an out of sight place. It looks like someone took one of these leaf-blowers and cleared our site. There are a lot of trees around here but no leaves on the ground. You can see the perfect circles around the base of the tree where grass dare not grow.

After the last two campgrounds that we have been in I just know that you are waiting for me talk about the wash house. Everything is spic-and-span clean. There are enough supplies including towels and even boxes of Kleenex Tissues. All of the stalls are much wider than you find in any public place, and the shower stalls are wonderfully wide. There is more room in one of them than in my shower at home! Can’t wait until tomorrow morning.

The sun had finally come out to stay, but we had laundry to do. Off to the laundry room. We decided to use it even though one of the dryers was out of service. The four washers were okay but the dryers left a lot to be desired. It took a long time and a lot of money to get everything dried. We should have looked for a laundromat somewhere else.

Supper done, Tom did the dishes while I tried to put away the laundry. He said that it was like packing the trailer all over again. And he was right. I finally achieved some sense of order and was able to sit and do the nightly computer things.

After about a 182 mile ride tomorrow we will be in the area of Niagara Falls. We will have 4 nights there. I hope we can see everything we would like to see.