Day 12: The Next Morning: We rise, embrace the mundanity of another motel morning, and head back over the bridge to give Pt. Pleasant West Virginia one more try. The Festival is coming to life slowly as we slip into town. 1st, an attempted photo op at the local statuary. (Forgive the picture, but it was right into the sun!) Then, into the only spot in town advertising "expresso." Strange (but good) coffees; stranger (but good) folklore.
Later, that same morning: hand drawn map in hand, we set out for the bunkers of the beast........you know, the usual...army bunkers built over old Indian burial grounds.....
We hit the road and meander our way out of West Virginia. One house is mansion-like, the next is made from trailer pieces jimmy-rigged together. Businesses are closed on every corner here. The recession is evidenced here big-time.
So it's on through the up and down rounded hills of West Virginia, smoothing out once we hit the Pennsylvania border. We leave the interstate at Meadville and, dodging Amish buggies, arrive at Woodcock Lake to camp for the night....beautiful, rolling hills of grass and trees....electricity, showers, and only two other campers in the 100+ sites....and one very noisy bug rubbing his legs for love all night long. I was ready to mate with it myself just to shut it up...
Day 13. Our first toll road...$3.00...??...(WTF are gas taxes for?)
Niagara Falls...$10.00 to park
Maid of the Mist boat ride for two....$27.00
All worth it
We drive on through upstate New York to the Finger Lakes and camp at Cayuga State Park. Many more bugs, not quite as nice a spot as the previous night, but every bit as empty.
Pizza parlor in Seneca Falls was wrong in so many ways.
The bugs began their "e-disharmony." I was so longing for the camp nights in the cold so deep that all the bugs were dead.
And then the rains came.....
Day 14: September 22, 2009
Woke up in one of the finest wine-tasting regions of the East Coast. Wineries plentiful and welcoming all around this finger-lakes region. MMMMmmmm. Can hardly wait!
Have to decide....get into Vermont or waste several hundred dollars on impulse wine purchases.
Compromise is reached....Dunkin Donuts for burnt coffee and donut holes! Then back onto Toll Road (90) across NY state. Another $7.25 and they let us off THIS road. Out of New York state and into Vermont. Bennington on Hwy 7 and then across state to Brattleboro.
Sweet little town. Lots of fun, good food, brew pub and an Econolodge and shower.
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