Monday morning we drove to the spectacular Adirondack Mountains. As a mountain snob, thinking anything under 5000 feet is a hill, we were surprised at how beautiful the heavily wooded ranges are. The birch, fir and few maples, though cut down many times, provide dense cover along the road. Every so often we saw an Adirondack chair built for Paul Bunyan or his kin. Other buildings had old ski gondolas as decorations.
Our destination was the Adirondack Museum, a complex of furnished 19th century vacation camps (cabins), a buckboard and carriage museum, boat museum and other small buildings. We watched a boatwright building a beautiful wooden guide boat. The complex hovered above Blue Lake affording a spectacular view. We learned of this outstanding museum from John and Louise, friends we bumped into at the Essex rally and owe them a big thanks for a great recommendation.
You must be shrinking. And btw, you could've learned about the Adirondack Museum from us if you ever paid attention to news about our travels ;-) We were there last year...
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