Riding the Adirondacks



Day three: Peru, NY to Effort, PA – 396 mi.

On Sunday I overslept. The second night on the ground was starting to take its toll I guess. In a way I was getting used to this sleeping pad which I think is very good, but there was still a lot of tossing and turning that went along with it depriving me of some sound sleep. After breakfast I started packing things up and after seeing the bathrooms I decided I didn’t really need a shower right now. It’s one thing if a place is rustic, out here you would expect that at a camp ground, but when it’s dirty you just don’t want to be in there if you don’t have to. The owners were very nice to me but the Karaoke and less than clean bathrooms will make me push this place towards the bottom of the list. It’s a shame, as the secluded area I was in was nice. Overall this place is fine but it wasn't was I was looking for. But I've been known to pull into woods off the side of the road to sleep just to be alone.

Before I left, I remembered I had no pictures of myself out here. I looked across at the empty site next to me and there was a post in the ground with the camp sites number on it. The top was flat and a perfect place to sit the camera and set the timer.


See? I was really here!




Where I pulled out at 10am yesterday I didn’t pull out until noon today. This was going to be a marathon ride from one gas station to the next anyway so I figured it would be no big deal. However Mother Nature had other plans later on.

As I pulled out onto Rt. 9 south, the sky isn’t quite as sunny anymore and I knew the last weather report I had seen (Friday) had chances of some rain on the way back. I go 4 miles and suddenly my “what was that?” alarm went off , “gotta stop and turn around! What was that?”. I had just passed over the Ausable Chasm. I never heard of it but this was worth stopping for some photos. Fortunately right after the bridge was a parking lot that I had time to pull into. I know nothing about this place nor have I looked it up to learn more, but here are the pics I took.




















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