Watkin's Glen NY

This is a pretty spontaneous road trip. We decided about 2 weeks ago that it was time to move a bit. We decided in this last week a loose itinerary. We know where we are going all the way until we turn around to come home. The rest is TBD.

I didn't take many pictures, mostly because I forgot I was doing Find Penguins and would need to add some.

Today is my birthday.
As my MIL would say, I am living my 70th year. I'm not sure I am ready to embrace that number, but today was a good start.

Richard drove all 6 hours. Since it is my day I didn't feel bad about saying I just didn't want to take a turn. It was a very pretty drive with lakes and mountains and dark heavy clouds that threatened but never rained and added such a soft light over the landscape. We reached our destination about 4 this afternoon.

Watkin's Glen is a very quaint town in the Finger Lakes region. We are staying in an inn that was built in 1892 on top of a hill overlooking Seneca Lake, the biggest of the Finger Lakes. It is a great old house and the host is very friendly.

We went to dinner at a farm to table restaurant called Graft and sat outside on the sidewalk. We started with a cheese board and wine and felt like we were back in Europe, sitting in a café, people watching. Our intention was to sit for a nosh and a drink, then walk and explore and go somewhere else for dinner. But the menu looked delicious and we had skipped lunch, so....... Everything they serve at Graft is locally sourced. Richard had halibut and I had duck, and nothing disappointed. It was all great. Dessert was a strawberry shortcake. It was a homemade biscuit about 5 inches in diameter with such sweet strawberries and fluffy whipped cream. So good.

After dinner we got a bottle of wine, walked around a bit and headed back to the inn. We sat on the front porch sipping our wine through sunset which we didn't see as we were facing east. But the view is spectacular and the weather was gorgeous. Once the sun went down the bugs came out and I retreated to my room. Richard is not bothered by mosquitos so is still enjoying outside.

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