Three Weeks Later Report #3

Feeling the need to get away after the busy-ness of the wedding and moving, Mike and I decided to take off to upstate New York to camp in the Adirondacks last week. Leaving Wednesday morning, we drove for many an hour down the I90 until we reached our campsite on Eighth Lake, The next morning we packed up again and headed northeast to see what we could see. Running into some rain, we headed for Lake Placid, where we discovered the COOLEST bookstore, which specialized in old books and tobacco. We spent quite some time there, musing through their collection and enjoying the atmosphere. When the rain stopped, we headed off for Buck Pond, where we set up tent for the next two nights. On Friday, we went to see Whiteface Mountain, where we drove up nearly to the top, and hiked the rest of the way to the peak. What a view! It is the fifth highest peak in NY state, and on a clear day you can see Quebec. It was definitely the highlight of our trip! Suffering from a severe case of bad-map-itis, we drove just shy of 200 kilometers that day. With about 10 miles to go on our way back to the site, Mike saw a sign reading "Whiteface Mountain - 14 miles" A word of warning to anyone out there who plans to camp in the Adirondacks: buy a GOOD map!! Saturday morning we hit the road again for home. We drove and drove and drove, and finally we got home. Back to work! Mike has been at Heritage for a few days already, going through materials and getting his curriculum in order. I started work this morning, learning lots of new things and meeting lots of new people. And so life keeps moving on!

Expert firewood-chopper hard at work

Our new favorite bookstore - too bad it's so far away!

Here we are at the peak of Whiteface Mountain- pretty high up!

A view from the top - if you look REALLY hard, you can see me! (top right corner)

Michael enjoying the view with Lake Placid in the background

It got very cold at night, into the mid 30's F, so bundling up was necessary. Unfortunately, we only brought one coat between the two of us, and that one was even by accident.