Adirondacks, NY



Schroon River Kayaking



Last night we arrived to the Adirondacks and a nice RV park set in a grove of tall pine trees so that the atmosphere was soaked in everything pine…the ground…the air…the canopy.  We decided that we would stay here a couple of nights and do some kayaking on the Schroon River using our new inflatable kayaks that we purchased months ago and haven’t had the opportunity to try out.  After spending nearly two hours trying to figure out how they inflated (not as easy as putting your lips to the nozzle and blowing) we were finally underway.  The plan involved leaving the bikes at the camp, driving the Jeep and kayaks up river a few miles and kayaking down to the camp so that we could bike back later to get the Jeep.  Everything worked great except that it turned out that the only place where the river actually flowed downhill was at our camp where we saw some minor rapids, but everything else upriver was really just an extension of a lake and didn’t actually flow, thus a very long 3+ mile rowing exercise. After a long nap from so much exercise I got enjoyed a few chapters of “The Help” lounging around outside in our paradise pine grove.   The Adirondacks are much more vast mountains than the Poconos or the Catskills.  We decided to stick to the main route and skip along the edge of the mountains since we couldn’t have our luxury RV hookups and I couldn’t find too many motivating points of interest deeper in the mountains except for the experience of “getting away” and we were already doing that.  Would rather see more of Vermont, Canada, Maine and other places…so we pushed on our current path up the edge of the mountains and toward Lake Champlain and Canada.  We have lots of the same mountains nearby the farm in Virginia and a whole state of mountains just an hour away…West Virginia to explore and get lost in.

Adirondack Mountains