Sooooo I'm back! Nice loooong weekend spent traveling the North Country with the wife (it was a "surprise" birthday trip, for her)... She's never seen the Adirondacks in the fall when the leaves are changing. We spent a day and night in Alexandria Bay, right across the St Lawrence river from Boldt Castle (the "off season" in Alex Bay is phenomenal, by the way... some of the shops are closed and whatnot but the crowds are practically non-existent). The next day we drove in to Hermon (where the "family cabin" is) and visited our newest "pseudo-grandbaby" for a few hours - Adah Jean; she's a tiny little thing and sooooo gorgeous - then rolled on into Adirondack park for the remainder of the day. Saranac Lake, Blue Mountain, Lake Placid, etc... and then drove over into Vermont for the night, watched the full moon dance on Lake Champlain, took a leisurely cruise through Burlington, etc, then bunked down for the night somewhere around Queensbury. Drove around the southern part of the park and then took a circuitous route home... Such beautiful country and, even better, I got to spend those days alone with my wife, uninterrupted!
Anyhoo... Reading up on what I might have missed and will get some posts of my own going very soon.