Upstate New York

On Friday, August 22, we drove to Mayville, NY and stayed at Camp Predergast, which is about an hour from the Pennsylvania border. It’s a nice small RV park with mostly seasonal campers. The owners are conscientious of not having the campers on top of each other and we have a big spruce pine tree on our site! The weather is wonderfully cool with sunny skies. There’s a lot to do here; hiking, biking, vineyards, breweries, little known fact to us is Lucille Ball is from this area and of course they have a museum in her honor plus various comedy attractions.
On Saturday we drove a few miles to the town of Lakewood and rode our bikes around the town. Supposedly Lucille Ball’s childhood home is there and we biked on the street but there was no marker so we weren’t 100% sure which one it was. We then drove to Jamestown and went to a farmers market. The Lucy and Desi museum is there but we opted to not go. We did drive to the Lucille Ball Memorial Park in Celoron. From there we went to Southern Tier Brewery in Lakewood and listened to a duo band that sang a wide range of cover songs, we were impressed. Sunday we drove to Westfield to visit Johnson Estate Vineyards. We did a tasting of 5 wines then sat outside and shared a half bottle of Rose. All the wines that we sampled were very good. We stopped short on drinking the Rose as we wanted to go to 5 and 20 Spirts and Brewing; they brew both beer and spirts and is part of Mazza Vineyards. Kevin enjoyed a flight and I had a limoncello spritz that was refreshing. A band was playing there but they were not as good as the band from yesterday.
The weather has turned amazingly cool! It’s hard to imagine 60 degrees and low humidity in August after living for so long in Texas! There was a prefect road outside the RV park that I ran on; newly paved asphalt, mostly flat with a few hills, a bit of a shoulder and very few cars.
On Tuesday we drove to Mayville and rode our bikes for about 7 miles, stopping at The Corner Deli for lunch.
Wednesday, Aug 27 we drove to Skyline Camping Resort in Darien Center, NY. It’s probably the largest place we’ve stayed to date, Kevin estimated 400 sites. It had activities over Labor Day weekend such as bands and corn hole tournaments. Kevin participated in some of it, I jet settled off to California for a mother daughter weekend in Sonoma County. We had a great time visiting wineries and tasting rooms. While there I recalled an instagram post from our nephew Daniel that alluded to him being reassigned to a USAF base in CA. I texted Paula and learned he is based about 40 minutes from Sonoma! We contacted him and met for dinner in Napa. I flew back on September 2 and the next morning we drove to Cooperstown, home of Baseball Hall of Fame. We stayed at a KOA and decided to join while we were there to get the discounts. They can be a bit more expensive (without the discount) than other places but they are everywhere and typically nice with amenities. I had wanted to join from the get go and Kevin eventually decided it was worth a try. On September 4th we drove into Cooperstown and went to the Baseball Hall of Fame. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, the layout was good and they highlighted all of the inducted players plus others achievements for those not inducted, like Pete Rose. Definitely thought it was better than the R&R Hall of fame, which felt like watching a heavy metal band on cocaine!もっと詳しく