Day 2

Day 2 – August 11, 2008

Yesterday we logged 404 miles and today, 347.

We left Jordan Station Best Western Motel at about 8:30 this morning. We traveled about 30 minutes to get to the Queens ton-Lewiston Bridge and were across in about 15 minutes. The weather was overcast but dry when we stopped at Tom Georges Villa…. Frankly that doesn’t sound quite right, but the guys agreed on the name. We had a hearty breakfast. The owner/cook was pleasant and came out to talk for a while. The dining room had 4 tables with people…. 3 tables, if you include ours, were from MI (Kalamazoo and Mount Pleasant). Lewiston proved to be a beautiful community…. both Charlie and I agreed that we could live there with no problem.

From Lewiston, we took the scenic Shore Route along lake Ontario to Rochester…. Along the way, the rain started again, so we suited up once more. We stayed with the shore route and entered a stretch of road that was like entering the Twilight Zone…. No cars at all…. It was eerie. As we approached Rochester a few cars passed, but relatively few. At Rochester the weather was nice and the riding easy. We made our way up to Watertown in and out of rain. Just north of Watertown we decided to stop at the next motel. The first stop, in the middle of a downpour with lightning approaching quickly wanted $80 for 2 beds, and looked like a crack house….. we moved on.

We entered the Adirondacks and stopped at Cranberry lake were there were supposed to be motels… there were 2. The one had doors that were practically hanging by their hinges, the other didn’t appear much better…. We moved on.

This time the destination was Tupper. The road and scenery was spectacular… the only thing to enhance it would have been dry weather and a little more time before night fall. The first motel we came to were cabins owned be a little German lady…. Clean… fairly inexpensive… perfect. The restaurant across the street was homy with good food.

That brings me to this point…. Sitting up in bed writing this… it won’t be blogged tonight because there is no internet here.