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Day 10 – Saturday & Sunday

Saturday, we got up, Kammy palled around with her new friend from Kansas, and I checked out the rental car and fireworks situation. We had a big brochure that gushed over how spectacular the light show and fireworks were over…
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Day 9 – Friday at the Falls

Friday would be our day at the falls. Even though I’d spent most of my life here on the east coast, somehow we’d never seen Niagara. There were two ways to see the place – drive in and around the…
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Day 8 – Across the state to Buffalo and the Falls

  Thursday, Melissa had just a morning session, so when she got back we took the car back to Enterprise and headed for the Thruway. We’d have about a 90 mile run today, across the state to Buffalo and our…
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Day 6 & 7 – Tuesday & Wednesday at the KOA

Tuesday, Melissa left to head to her conference, at a fancy hotel about 10 miles away. Kamryn and I stayed behind to relocate the RV to our new, permanent spot, meet the neighbors, and do a bit of fishing. The…
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Day 5 – The Mansion on the Hill

Monday morning, we called the Enterprise place just up the road, and as advertised, they came out to pick me up. I rode back to the office with them, and after filling out all the paperwork, we had a nice…
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Day 4 – KOA is A-OK!

Sunday, Day 4, we pretty much just hung around the KOA – since we weren’t in our ‘reserved’ spot, as soon as the CG was ready for us we moved from our temporary overnight spot, to the nicer lakeside spot…
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Day 3 – About Face!

Stuck in Neutral Saturday morning was nice and sunny and warm by the time the sun got up above the hills. so we had some breakfast and tried the key again, and nothing. I’m not sure what I expected, but…
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Day 2 – Who’s at Hoosick?

Today was scheduled as a leisurely run up the Hudson River’s east bank, through Poughkeepsie,  and then on to Albany, where we’d make a right and head into Vermont.  First, though, we spend a leisurely hour or so wandering around…
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Day 1 – Salem to Croton-on-Hudson

  Part 1 – NJ to PA and then NJ again Our first day out. We hit the usual mid-day traffic up Interstate 295 in New Jersey, taking it up to the Commodore Barry Bridge spanning the Delaware River between…
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2014 Vacation-New York State & Niagara Falls

In the summer of 2014, we planned a short trip to visit my mother, sister and other family in Vermont, and then turn westwards across New York State. Melissa had a three-day business conference just outside of Rochester, and we…
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