Month: May 2004

Howe’s Caverns

I tried to get out of the thing at the last minutes citing our collective cold and the temperature difference of 52 F in the caves compard to 75 F up top but I was over-ruled and lucky for having been over-ruled. At 40 bucks USD for an hour and a half with a gift shop mine field to run at the finish, it is not cheap but the kids loved being spellunkers for a morning. Howe’s Caverns has a discount program with the Baseball Hall of Fame…which I only learned about after we got back.

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Saranac Lake

I could yap it up like a Saranac Lake Chamber of Commerce membership nominee. Suffice it to say it is a beautiful town to which we will return.
The view to the south from the fifth floor of the Hotel Saranac.


The view to the west from the same fifth floor of the Hotel Saranac.

First Two Legs

Best route ever from Kingston, Ontario to Portland Maine.   Highway 3
across the Adironracks, crashed at the Hotel Saranac, this morning down Lake
Champlain on the NY side to cross over at Rutland Vt., nip to Lebanon and down
to Concord NH, over to Portsmouth NH on #4 and up to Portland on
I-95.    At Rutland it was summer in the Maritimes – 20
degrees, leaves out, sunshine.   I lay on mown grass out behind the
Friendly’s after we ate lunch.   We drove through the birthplace
of the US Navy on the south end of Lake Champlain, but made a note to check
it out on a shorter French and Indian Wars / Last of the Mohicans loop.

The Road Redux

Saranac Lake to Portland to Cape Cod to Holyoke to Cobleskill and back. A big north-eastern loop. Dispatches as possible. Attack cats unleashed at home so don’t try anything.