After departing Rhode Island, we made our way to the Adirondacks.  This place is beautiful, but a really hard place to visit due to lack of organization of information.  My mom and dad searched and searched and just could not find a common repository of information on the Adirondack Park.  Why?  Mom and dad said it appears there is no common pool of information as the park is just a collection of areas that are all unrelated.  We sure hope New York puts this all in place as we really want to come back and spend more time hiking and camping.
The park is very pretty and quite vast, but you need time to get around and figure it all out as we drove around a lot and really did not see much of what we were looking for.  We settled for camping in the Wilmington Notch State Park campground which is very near an amazing waterfall.  The campground is far from great with a giant chain link fence running around the whole place.  My brothers and I like to explore and this place was not the most kid adventurer friendly.  The campground is right on the road as well and there were lots of cars flying by.  Not our idea of what camping should be like.  The bathroom lights were so bright throughout the park that my brothers and I all got a really nice tan while we were sleeping.

The falls behind the giant chain link fence were spectacular.  We hiked down and around the falls for an hour or two.  Lots of high peaks that required sure footing.  We did not do any of our normal dance moves as it was just too tricky.  My parents had to hang on to our little brother as he is quite fast and crazy and very well could have accidentally jumped off a cliff.  He is chubby and like a Bumble would probably bounce.

Next up we are heading to the Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Factory in Vermont and then to Franconia Notch in New Hampshire.  We will cross Lake Champlain via ferry which should be really cool.  Adios, New York!

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