Same Shirt, Different day-2012 Adventures of the "Devonport Wonder Babes"

Monday 14^th Tuesday 15^th   Wednesday 16th Maine to New York State

Evaporated milk from a tin on breakfast muesli. Yum !! On road by 9 am Monday for long days drive through very beautiful wooded country side right across Maine, part of New Hampshire and Vermont. Quite a few run down houses, surrounded by  derelict cars etc and the odd Stop Obama signs.  Lunch was previous night’s leftovers from the bar and grill. Crossed lake Champlain into New York State on car ferry and then thru to Lake Placid Summit Hotel  by about 7.30 pm after 9 1/2 hrs in car. Lake Placid was site of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics and is very like Queenstown, popular in both summer and winter. Fantastic nights sleep in huge king size bed, best so far and woke to misty morning over the lake. Walk in village and visit to very beautiful little church, St Eustace, where we met the vicar and had a chat.

Wee Ferry on lake Champlain Ferry

H&L on lake Champlain ferry

Shorline houses from ferry

Tuesday morning we set off from Lake Placid through the woods and lakes of upstate New York, some very beautiful places, Lake Saranac especially, then on to the shores of Lake Ontario and meandered through lots of small villages and arrived at Ingrid’s house outside Rochester about 6 pm. Her house is on 2 ½ acres much of it well fenced so her two dogs, Brady and Beckett can run free. Nice dinner with NZ wine and great conversations. (Ingrid and I were the entire M.Sc class in physiology at Massey University early 1970’s-she is now professor at Rochester)

Morning mist over Lake Placid from our hotel room

Lake Placid Olympic Centre

Stained glass windows in St Eustace Church

Wednesday we had slowish start –sorted out yet another 5 kg of stuff to send home and yet another visit to US Post office. Had a lovely long walk through tree lined old railroad track with Ingrid and Brady (Beckett not yet ready for this sort of outing) –rained a little bit , not enough to get wet , just dewey.N ap and lazing about in house in afternoon and then out to restaurant in Honeoye Falls for dinner  

Ingrids house

Back garden for dogs

Walking on rail path in woods

Lyndsay and Ingrid in kitchen

Helen,Ingrid and Lyndsay at  Dinner Honeoye Falls