The campground murmerings this evening are in French and someone is cooking something that smells truly delicious somewhere here. Zut […]


The campground murmerings this evening are in French and someone is cooking something that smells truly delicious somewhere here. Zut […]

Its July 4th, and in keeping with other July 4ths on previous road trips we set out to see a […]
There are fireworks banging and crashing outside, the wind is stirring up the trees and something like a duck is […]

Its twenty to ten and Tom has decided that sleep is probably a good idea. A late night for him […]

With the blinds down and a grey morning we all slept in after a terrific rainstorm overnight. Our little patch […]

“Adirondaks”, I told Philippa knowledgeably earlier today, means “Bark Eaters”. The Iroquois used to come to these mountains in the summer and […]

It was blissful to wake in almost complete silence this morning. No yelling kids, no engines, no cars, no people […]

This is more like it. Just down a wooded slope from our campsite is a small lake surrounded by forest […]
A busy weekend at Green Lakes State Park. Families from Syracuse and Ithica getting back to nature in a safe […]

Its cool and dark outside and the silence is broken only by the echoes of children up too late, and […]