Author: Bernard Chenevert

“Kodak” museum and fingers lake area – Canandaiga lake

Three main things today: 1- Eastman Kodak’s world headquarters are based out of Rochester NY.  So we decided to visit the Kodak museum.  It had a quite interesting display on the history of photographic media and cameras.  Undoubtedly, the best part of the visit was the self-guided tour of the Eastman mansion. 2- We drove… Continue reading “Kodak” museum and fingers lake area – Canandaiga lake

Erie Canal

Today, we drove to Macedon, NY to a campground that backs off on the Erie Canal, which connects lake Ontario to Lake Erie.  While it is definitely a canal, it is much smaller than I was expecting, and just wide enough for recreational boats.  Today was really hot, and we spent most of the afternoon… Continue reading Erie Canal

Salmon River Falls

For our day two in Parish, we started off by canoeing for about an hour in the morning, on a small lake which was part of the campground property.  In the afternoon, we drove to Salmon River Falls, close to the campground.  The falls were quite nice, and the path to the falls mostly graveled… Continue reading Salmon River Falls

Parish, NY

First time camping in NY state with this RV (new sticker on our map) and first two-night stay on this trip.  First impression is that the campground we are at is a very well maintained.  We explored the campground and planned to go and do some canoeing tomorrow

Off we go to the great lakes area

Today’s goal was to finish packing and leave.  So our first stop was relatively close – near Hershey PA.  It’s fair to see that we very rarely have a sit-down meal while we travel.  However, since we had minimal driving to do, and we were hungry, we actually stopped.  That was nice.  We still got… Continue reading Off we go to the great lakes area

Trip stats

We drove of 6519 miles, of which 4588 (70%) was towing our RV to get from one campground to another, and 1930 (30%) was getting around locally with the truck.  Our trip took lasted 56 days, during which we stayed at 27 different locations.  The most locations we stayed at is in Texas (11 locations). … Continue reading Trip stats