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We left the Waterloo Harbor Campground a little after 9 and continued east on Hwy 20. The first town was Senaca Falls where the first Women’s Right Convention was held in 1848. A short stop and we continued on across hwy 20 to hwy 12 north.



We drove through the farm belt on 20, a lot of small farms with a vegetable stand selling their wares almost every other mile. Bought some sweet corn and a couple tomatoes the size of softballs. We drove past the Finger Lakes Drive-In, a working drive-in theatre out in the small towns of the mountains. The target Adirondack Park and we rode hwy 28 into the park where we stopped at the Adirondack Museum. This was a much larger facility than expected with multiple exhibits about every aspect of life in the Adirondack Mountains. The first we looked at was the boat exhibit which showed all manner of boat from kayaks, canoes and racers from the early 1900. They chronicled the change to power boats and had a couple of very old Evinrude 35hp outboard motors.





Then we moved to the newest of the 11 exhibit halls with interactive displays that would allow you to ride logs and steer the logs down the river or row a boat. Very life like. The museum overlooked Blue Mountain lake, one of the more than 100 lakes within the park.

Leaving the museum, we continued north on hwy 28 to hwy 30 and then to the town of Tupper Lake. There we located a campground, Blue Jay Campsites. The office was closed but the owner told me to just go take any site I wanted that he had no one else coming in. We are in the trees on a somewhat tiered campground with mostly flat sites. The only amenity missing is wifi, but for free, I am not complaining.




Today was all non-interstate for the first time since we left. We drove through lots of mountainous terrain with all kinds of trees and for the first time we saw signs of the color change. Numerous trees had vibrant yellows, oranges, and differing shades of red. It was just a glimpse but holds much promise for the desired aspect of this trip, see the fall colors.

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