We continue to work our way south in New York State. We stopped two nights in Eaton Lake Campsite, just north of Long Lake NY. From there we traveled down to Blue Mountain where we spent much of the day at the Adirondack Museum. We haven;t been there in probably 20 or 30 years. Last time we were there Water Witch was housed in a plexi dome in the entry. Now it is inside next to the ticket desk (this is a sailboat with at 30 foot (?) mast). It w as well worth the visit and it brought back a lot of memories. There are a lot of boats of all sorts and a private railcar and an old ADK hotel and . . . well you get the idea. Speaking of stopping in a State Park in the Adirondacks, this is what you call shoehorned in.
This was one of the largest spots in the park. Clearly they are much more friendly to smaller trailers and tents.
From Long Lake we drove through some more back roads and to Saratoga Springs where we stayed in the Elks Lodge for the night. We decided not to go to a museum and instead walked through the town and did some shopping – looking only – and then had dinner at Boca Bistro on Broadway. It was very nice – no foodie pictures were taken.
The next day we drove to Rhinebeck NY to Interlake Campground. This is a very nice campground if a bit hilly, but the sites are level. We came here in particular to see FDR’s home and see it we did today. There are four sites on the property, the House, the Presidential Library, Top Cottage which served as a private place for FDR and Val-Kill which served as Eleanor’s personal space and home after Franklin died. He had left the main house to the National Park SErvice in his will. We toured three of the four and visited and wandered about in Val-Kill after the tours were over for the day.
Tomorrow we plan to spend time at Storm King Art Museum and whatever other trouble we can get ourselves into. The only other plan we have is dinner at CIA on Thursday night (That’s Culinary Institute of America). We will be dining in the Italian Restaurant. More on that anon.