Lake Placid

On Thursday Barbara and I left Ellsworth, Maine and began our slow journey west. We travelled through New Hampshire and into Vermont. Vermont has some beautiful countryside. We saw some buffalo and elk and a lot of lakes and rivers , but that’s where to fun ends. The roads in Vermont are awful. We were travelling along state highway VT105 when I saw a sign that read, “Road Construction Ahead”. For the next 12 miles their state highway was nothing but dirt. In addition, it was very difficult to find a fuel station where we could get diesel. The first one we saw, the canopy was too low to clear the top of the trailer. The next station had diesel, but their pump was way in the back and no way we could access it pulling the trailer. At the next station we could access the pumps, but they were out of diesel. When we finally found a station that we could access and had diesel, we only had 2.5 gallons of diesel in our tank. That equates to approximately 23 miles pulling the trailer. By visiting Vermont we completed our travels through every state in the lower 48. The only state we have yet to visit is Alaska.

After spending the night in Vermont we again headed west and are currently staying at the North Pole RV Resort just 13 miles from Lake Placid, New York. As you may recall, Lake Placid is the home of the 1980 Winter Olympics “Miracle on Ice”. Today (Saturday) we headed into Lake Placid to visit the Olympic Ice Rink where the miracle happened and hopefully get to skate on the same ice as those wonderful hockey players did in 1980. Unfortunately the Olympic Center is closed. They are currently renovating the facilities and it won’t reopen until next year. When completed this facility is supposed to be one of the most advanced Olympic training centers in the world, second only to the one in Calgary, Canada.

On our way back to the North Pole we stopped along the Ausable River at Monument Falls and the High Falls Gorge. The series of falls that make up the High Falls Gorge travel over 700 feet horizontally. Over one million gallons of water flow through the gorge every day and the rocks in the gorge date back 1.5 billion years.