Arrived, Thousand Islands NY

Greetings from Thousand Islands! These photos don't line up very well probably because of the sunlight exposure and because of the cropping. But you can see the many islands.

Gary says this is a Bantam that was made in Butler, PA. But it is now used to advertise the campground.

We arrived at the campground between Clayton and Alexandria Bay, NY after just a 3 hour drive. That sure was more to our liking!! Then we had plenty of time to set up and unpack the loose things (and we have plenty!) that can't be left to shift while traveling. We can use the awning this time, which I like. At Cortland the large maple at our site made too much mess, which we did not want to get on top of the awning. So we just used the tree shade.

You can see that this is a nice level campground though not so many trees. But our neighbor's MH sure makes ours look small. They do make them bigger and better, I guess. He goes out in his boat every day. We are just 1/4 mile from the St. Lawrence as the crow flies. On the other side we have Canadian neighbors who are stuck here until they get their MH registration. We also had a young couple with four youngsters from Springfield OH where he teaches military pilots. They were actually from Holland and will be in the states until 2011. We also have another couple with one little boy in front of us from here in the state of NY. And diagonally there is one with two yapping pups, who will not be with us too long (we Hope)!

The next day we went up the road looking for a Walmart to know that we could get Gary's prescription in a few days and ended up going wa-a-a-y up the road. But on the way, we took pictures from every roadside pull off. You can see from the photos why this area is called Thousand Islands . Many are inhabited and many not . We haven't been near the ones with the castles or millionaire's row yet. We will check some of that out this week. Well, Walmart was so far away that we decided to go back south to Watertown when it was time to renew the prescription as is a shorter distance. When we went we found out that New York has a state law which prohibits Walmart from keeping prescriptions stored in their computer. We ended up staying there for three hours to wait for a faxed prescription. What a pain!

On another day, we went the other direction to Clayton to check out the Post Office to have our mail forwarded. The town is very small but has a lot packed in!! They have water on all three sides of them and even an island off in one direction which we drove to. Some pretty nice newer homes there. The water sure was clear there. On the opposite side of this town, they have a marina, an antique boat museum where George Boldt's boat (probably one of many) is, and a roped off area where they taught very young people to sail . Looked like fun to me!

We also had a Cruis' in come to us! The store in front of the grounds , which is just two sites from us, have a busy ice cream business and a Friday night Cruis' in every week with entertainment. For July 4th it was a local DJ with music from '47 to '80's. You could look at his list and make your requests. Some were original artists and some of them he sang. He was good, but I'll bet exhausted by 10PM. Anyway, Gary was thrilled to see the cars and I enjoyed the music and ice cream. The small cone was so large that the next time we will get one and share! The campground owner even had his two vehicles on display.

No, that woman did not belong with that truck!

The campground hay ride just went past. Richie would have loved that, but he would miss the swimming pool that was at Timashamie. We talk to him and Richard every few days. Richie is keeping pins on a map of places where we stay. He is not having as many pins as he would have if he were following our Salem friends. But we like the feeling of having a home, which staying in one spot gives us. I'm sure that eventually we will learn to move on more frequently. We also heard from the other boys today. So was a good day.

The weather has been beautiful here, breezy and sunny! Only rain one night. I can handle that. So keep following and we will take you to Boldt Castle, for one thing. There was a documentary about it on PBS just a few nights ago. It is very interesting!

Take care, and we will go outside to see fireworks again tonight!