Niagara Falls to Williamstown Report
Thank you for reading this Niagara Falls to Williamstown Report and Photo Essay. Fall is definitely here. The coldest weather we’ve seen happened Friday morning, with temperatures below freezing. While this is in part while we left home for a while, it does make it hard to get up in the morning when we’re sleeping in the van.
As a baseball aside, saw this on the ‘net, loved it-
After visiting a couple wineries, we re-visited Niagara Falls during the daytime. You can walk through an old water discharge tunnel to get to a close-to-water-level view of the falls. We did it. It was spectacular.
Then Maxx and Catalina drove west, Susan and I drove east. We camped at the east end of Lake Ontario at Southwick Beach State Park, after a lovely drive through cornfields, apple orchards, and vineyards. The campsite was lovely, and we got a gorgeous sunset, too.
Continuing east, we spent a couple nights in the Adirondacks at a campground near Paul Smiths. The fall colors were amazing! We visited Saranac Lake in the rain, and Lake Placid in the cold. I preferred Saranac Lake, finding Lake Placid entirely too touristy.
Our wake-up temperature the last night we camped was 34 degrees. We were scheduled to camp one more night, in Vermont, but drove to Williamstown, Massachusetts, where we rented a room. It was even colder the next morning, so the motel was a good idea! We stopped in Manchester while en route, visiting an art gallery (a nice one) and the Orvis store, a waste of time.
Friday we had some unexpected and unwanted excitement when Susan fell part-way down a flight of stairs at the motel. We spent the next four hours at the emergency room. She got five stitches in her forehead, and an air-cast on her left ankle. Thankfully it wasn’t worse, which it certainly could have been.
It’s Saturday morning as I write this. Later today we’re attending a 50th reunion party for the Center for Resourceful Living, of which I am an alumnus, having spent a couple semesters there about 50 years ago. How time flies!
Every day is a blessing. Don’t waste it- Go fishing! Go paddling! Go walking! Take a vacation! Stay active!
John Kumiski
www.spottedtail.com
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