Its been a long time since my last blog.  This year has been a celebration of Dave's improved health after finally figuring out what has caused his high blood pressure and low potassium issues of the last few years.  Thanks to doctors at Lehigh Valley Health Network, he found that one of his adrenal glands was causing the issue, and had it removed; of course that's the long story short, but we are so happy with the results that we are happy to move forward with activities we have always enjoyed doing. 


June 19th was our 40th wedding anniversary, and this year we decided to go back to where we had our honeymoon 40 years ago at Lake George NY and to continue on to Vermont which is the last state in the New England states that we had left to visit.   We were blessed with a wonderful sunny day, blue skies and low humidity on Sunday morning, June 19th (THE day) when we started out on what would be a 950 mile 'road trip'.  Taking 81 N to Binghamton, then on the Rt 88.  We used 30A and 29 to take us to in Sarasota Springs.  By the way, that was our first time in Sarasota Springs, and we couldn't believe what a hub of activity we found on its main drag (RT 50).  Glad to get out of there and away from the throngs of people and cars, it was a fairly short jaunt once on RT 87 to Lake George (RT 9). 

After 330 miles we finally made it to Lake George around 3:30 pm.  We were bushed!  We discovered a much more touristy village with unlimited motels, hotels, cottages, camp grounds.  A village full of restaurants, and tourist shops which seemed much different than what we remember 4 decades ago.  After a quick look around we decided to settle in at Motel 6 which was right in town and grab a bite to eat at a local pub (fish n chips was okay but not great).  We relaxed and walked the board walk that evening with plans to take a boat ride on the lake the next morning.  Unfortunately, we didn't know until the next morning that the ship had been cancelled to the public as it was taking a school group out that day.  Back in 1976 we would have surrounded our time going to small amusement parks (like 1960s Boulder Park in Indian Falls NY for those Westner NY readers), but today's parks are the mega amusement parks.  So, we decided to move on down the road and head to Fort Ticonderoga.  Heading up 9N we stopped at Bolton Landing, another little tourist town where I

couldn't resist going to a gift shop.... a short time later out I came with my Dad's father's day present; a hummingbird shaped bird feeder that I thought Dad would get a hoot out of. 

By noon we were at Fort Ticonderoga.  We really enjoyed our time there and learned a lot about the history of the fort from the French and Indians days to American revolution, and Civil War.  We also visited Mount Defiance where the Brittish conducted a surprise attack on the Fort, leading to the Americans abandoning it.