Our orignal plans were to spend the night in the Seneca Falls area after visiting several wineries. Instead, we chose the "shorter" wine trail along Keuka Lake, and only stopped at two wineries. Both were good and we have a case of white from the Fox Run Winery being shipped to home. We'll use one of those wines as our "wine from home" next season.
The first winery was Macgregor's. This winery was way up the hillside and afforded great views of the lake. We only tasted one wine there, so didn't have to pay the tasting fee; we did buy the wine. A very good unoaked chardonnay. Talked to the owner a little bit and petted his Portuguese Water Dog - Max. He said, "You may not believe this, but I used to live next door to Barack Obama in Chicago. I like to think that Max and I were the reason he picked his dog, but I know it probably was because of the Kennedy's. However, several people in the neighborhood had Portuguese Water Dogs. So, who knows?" Interesting gentleman.
Oh, BTW, Smethport, PA is home of Wooly Willy. Look him up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooly_Willy
Sometime during the day of driving through many, many small towns, I made the decision to return to the interstate for a while. I needed the rest; too many speed changes. At that time we decided to drive on to Lake George and spend two nights there. I'm glad we changed plans, yet once again, we saw 5 different rainbows on the way. One was complete and appeared to begin over the interstate lanes to our left. Beautiful scenery.
I may have mentioned this before, but our two GPSs failed early on in the trip and we bought another - a Mio S501 - Samantha. The iWay's screen failed to respond to touches (it's now in a trash can somewhere) and the new Magellan has no longer allowed us to create routes (it always wants to restart). So, Samantha has been our routing friend/foe. Donna continues to use the map and other paper guides, in case Samantha wants to take us down some country road - which sometimes she is wont to do. Many times I'd like to throw Samantha out the window. However, yesterday afternoon we let Samantha have her way and drove through downtown Saratoga Springs. What a beautiful, quaint, and vibrant area. Many restaurants with outdoor dining and people everywhere. The attraction seemed to be the New York City Ballet performing in town.
Made it to Ledgeview RV just before sundown - happy to get out of the rig for a little while. A pretty quiet park, but a little pricey at $39. Today (Thursday, July 9) was spent doing washing and ironing, and planning the next few days.
We'll try to leave a little earlier in the morning because the weather forecast sounds good and there are some neat things to see in Vermont.
Miles Driven: 393
Driving Time: 8.7 hours !!!! Let's don't do that again.
MPG: 22.6
Fuel: $47.62 (17 gal at $2.80 - and it's getting higher)
Camping: $78 (two nights)
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