The trains are up and running. This is truly a labor of love!
Linda's Bike Log
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
2023 Village
Sunday, November 12, 2023
October 14-15, 2023
All we did the next few days was play Scrabble. Neither of us won money this time, but it's always an interesting experience playing in a tournament.
We left Lake George after the last games Sunday afternoon and I drove straight through to home, stopping only for gas and dinner. Our dinner was at a Mexican Restaurant in Batavia, NY. This was the first long trip for this car, and it behaved very well, hour after hour in the driving rain. It's good to be home!
October 13, 2023
We drove out to hike to a waterfall today. I thought it was interesting that it was 20 miles away and would take 45 minutes to get there--the road to the site was "unimproved"--not paved, rocky and hilly. Some sections had room to meet another vehicle, some didn't.
It was no problem for me and my Jeep, but Dianne wsa pretty nervous about being on a one-lane dirt road with no guardrails or shoulders. We chose a parking lot and hiked in on the "blue trail".
The trail led to a lovely view of Lake George (the lake), much different than the view from the village of Lake George. The "red trail" led off to the left of where this photo was taken and I wanted to take that trail--it seemed to me that it would lead to the waterfalls. Dianne wanted to go back the way we came, so I gave in and we did. It was a nice easy trail, although the return was uphill.
We drove to a different parking lot and hiked a differnt trail; this time there was a sign that told us there were waterfalls. The "trail" was strewn with rocks. It was quite a difficult trail.
October 11-12, 2023
We did not do much on Wednesday Oct. 11; it rained.. We played Scrabble, did some shopping, went out to eat a couple of times...This is the view from our balcony.
Thursday, October 12 we decided to ride the Wareen County Bikeway again. It is supposed to connect to another path called the Feeder Canal Trail, but we did not find it Tuesday; we turned around and went home because the sky looked ominous and we did not want to get caught in the rain.
We did not find it today either, although we followed the signs and asked several people in Glens Falls. It was a nice ride anyway.
Saturday, November 11, 2023
October 10, 2023
Today we rode the Warren County Bikeway. We saw it last year when we were here for the Lake George Scrabble tournament, and decided then that if we came back here we would bring our bikes.
October 9, 2023
This morning we set out to Fort William Henry to get another look at the photo I found yesterday.
It is the bottom photo on the left, and is captioned "Interested Spectators Watch Digging". How amazing is that that I recognized Bill among all those photos?
We went for a drive to check on Bryan's family cottage, just outside Lake George. It looks fine, I sent him the photos I took. All is well.
October 8, 2023
We went to Prospect Mountain Diner for breakfast, our favorite place here. Then we went to Fort William Henry. The British were defeated by the French here in 1757, but the museum commemorates the British.
The young man in the photo above was preparing to shoot his musklet and did not like where I was--directly in fromt of where he was planning to shoot, and oblivious to his intentions! He called out "Ma'am! You in the purple coat!" until I realized he was calling to me!
I spent some time in the outdoor museum, walked around the second floor battlements, and watched part of a film about the exhuming and identifying of persons from the fort cemetery. I was interested enough to go to the cemetery outside the gates, and there on the wall was a photo of Bill, age 11, with his dad and his brother!
Oktoberfest was going on in the streets of Lake George, so we walked down there after we got back from the fort.