Continuing to eat our way home

 This is the work room of Mrs Hanes hand made Moravian cookies.Every cookie is hand rolled, hand cutout and packaged by a person.

 Big "Bertha"  is a mixer that was obtained from a Navy ship to mix the dough.  The only park of this cookie that is done by machine.  And how do the ingredients get into the machine ? By a person who knows the secret recipe.  3000 eggs are used when this machine if prepared to mix the cookie dough!!!

In the old days Mrs Hanes mother used this dough bowl, this baking sheet and cookie cutters to prepare the original cookies.  They are very good also. Six flavors: Ginger, Lemon, Chocolate, Butterscotch, Sugar and Black Walnut.  Yup we tasted them all on a tour!

Camping at Forest Lake in Lexington, North Carolina

 Our RV looks nice reflected in the pond

 Nice cabins on the lake, very quiet here now! different on the weekends!

This dragon Fly liked the mirror on Jim's bicycle

Albion and places close

 Today there was a re-enactment of the Normandy Invasion.  It was in Conneaut, Ohio.

 Complete with planes, LCI's and tanks.  Quite a show!

With all the noice from the blank ammo, can't imagine what it was really like.

Lockport, NY

 We stayed at the Elks Club in Lockport, so today we toured the town.

 Lo and behold the longest lock in the Erie Canal system is here in Lockport, number 39

Here are some of the bridges on the waterway.  These bridges raise up to let boat traffic through.  We took the Cruise on the Erie Canal.

Niagara Falls

 Here are the beautiful American Falls as seen from Canadian side.The sun almost came out!

 We walked out on the Observation Deck then down to the gorge and walked up the side of the Falls

Here is the best I dould do without a tripod to take night pictures.

Naples and Letchworth State Park

 Here are the purple fire hydrants in Naples. In the book Off the Beaten Path Naples is famous for fire hydrants.

And Grape Pie! Ingredients include lard, concord grapes and sugar .

 Then on to Letchworth State Park.  Here is a rainbow at the Middle Falls.

Middle Falls from Inspiration Point.  Beautiful!

Todays quest, wineries and chocolate and waterfalls, beer and cheese

 Taughannock Fall Has no falls  drought anyone????

 Winery and brewery at one stop

 Beautiful place on Cayuga Lake

View of Senaca Lake from deck at Brewery

Lorenzo State Historic Site in Cazenovia, NY

 So the quest for the day was to see Lorenzo Historic site. However we were in the RV's .  So we found out we could park in the field at the site

 The site was quite impressive. The docent was very impressive.

The falls at Ithica were the only falls with any appreciable water flowing over them.

Cooperstown and visit to Erie Canal

 Day started out a little shaky, Sherry wanted to see the Erie Canal, so we went on a field trip to the Erie Canal Village, Dare I say it is RUN DOWN!. So off we go to the real canal, first a farmer's market, and an Elks Club in Rome.  Then on to lock 20 where we were lucky to see 3 boats go through,  two downstream, and one up.

The guys went to the Hall of Fame for a day.

Jim and I also had dinner with old friends Ann and Paul.

Ferry from Vermont to New York, and the Ausable Chasm

                                      
We decided to take the ferry to save some time and gas to get to New York.  A very smooth sailing on Lake Champlain occurred.  The GPS wasn't sure what was happening.

The Ausable Chasm was awesome!  We found it in a book titile  Off the Beaten Path.

We hiked one mile and then rafted a mile in the Chasm.