Reminiscing...

If you said: "Little River Band, 1978," you get 200 bonus points!  Nice harmony, by the way.

Last night at the fairgrounds, the rain quit and we could hear band music; not rock band, but marching band.  Sure enough, there is a group of school kids who are rehearsing for their march in the parade during the fair (in August)...

A free place to park... some protection from the wind and rain (while it was underway)... and musical entertainment - can't beat this.

This morning, we saw that lady that met us at the gate to show us where to park - she was driving by to check on us, to make sure we did OK for the night.  "Yep, sure did."  Probably a good thing the fair wasn't happening: we were parked pretty close to this dumpster...

Yeah, no smell, 'cause we think it was empty.

We left Hamburg, heading towards north central NY, and looking forward to seeing some of the Erie Canal sights by land.  Traffic was crazy busy when we skirted around Buffalo - way more stop and go driving than I care to do with the coach.  It took about an hour and a half to go 30 miles.

It was bliss when we got out of town on the back roads.  "Follow that truck!"

Which is a bit funny, 'cause neither of us drinks beer.  We stopped in Middleport, near one of the lift bridges on the Erie Canal...

Looking east, then west in the canal...

A couple photos of each other at the bridge...

Then, back to the coach...

It was pretty quiet in town, so our parking on one of the main drags didn't inconvenience anyone.  As we were getting ready to roll, the bridge opened and one of the rental canal boats went through...

The canal boat is the red part in the above photo (didn't have much of an angle since we were back in the coach).

Rolling down the road, there are places the canal is very nearby...

It was fun to see the towns from the land perspective - places that didn't seem very big when we were on the boat are much bigger when you have the land perspective and can see how much town there is away from the canal.  There was a lot of: "Hey, remember that?"

One more big city to skirt around: Rochester.  Yeah, a lot of traffic...

A part of Rochester that meant a lot to us in our studio days: Eastman Kodak...

That building goes on for a couple blocks, and appears to be empty.  Kodak imploded pretty quickly when the public abandoned film and prints in favor of digital images that you show on your phone.  A by-gone era.

Out of Rochester, the roads got better and much less congested.  Now, we began to anticipate what the RV park would be like - we will be in this one for a week.  Not our usual traveling style, but we don't want to be looking for a place for the night during this busy holiday travel week.

We checked into the park and got settled in our RV site.  There is some gravel, but the ground is pretty soggy in most places due to the recent rains...

Since we are going to be down for a week, we put out our patio mat to make it cleaner going into the coach.  All the utilities, plus satellite TV - just like home.  ;-)

Since Izzy didn't get to go outside last night due to the rain, she was anxious to walk around and sniff some grass...

When we checked in, the nice lady doing our paperwork said, "I see you have a cat."

I replied, "I don't know if it is in your notes, but she is the cutest kitty ever, if you want to make a note of that."

Another lady behind the counter said, "Well, I do have the cutest kitty in the world!"

I said, "I am sure your cat is in the top 3 or 4 - the cutest ever is in our coach."  More discussion followed.  I think we have been accepted by the management here.

A beautiful day today, but the weather weasels are predicting a wet week ahead.  We'll see.  We have umbrellas and rain coats, and we're not afraid to use them.  ;-)