Threadkillers...

[AustinBoston]

this thread hasn't even reached a year.  it's the least we can do to keep it alive that long.

On this forum, lots of threads die in just a few weeks.  This one is getting rather old.

Austin

[dthurk]

Were you hoping I had forgotten about this one?

[AustinBoston]

Were you hoping I had forgotten about this one?

YOU CHEATED!

This thread was DEAD, on the SECOND PAGE, and you resurrected it!

I killed it, and it was DEAD!

Austin (who promises to quit shouting)

[dthurk]

YOU CHEATED!
 
 This thread was DEAD, on the SECOND PAGE, and you resurrected it!
 
 I killed it, and it was DEAD!
 
 Austin (who promises to quit shouting)

Rules, rules, rules.  Who makes up the rules?  It's that AustinBoston character that keeps creating all these new threads in this Campfire forum that causes this thing to go to the second page.  Trying to kill your own thread by making up the rules then making sure that it happens?  I think not.  This thread is alive and well.  It hasn't been killed yet.  Won't happen until it disappears into archive oblivion.

[AustinBoston]

It's that AustinBoston character that keeps creating all these new threads in this Campfire forum that causes this thing to go to the second page.

Oh, I guess that explains why half the threads in the campfire are started by me  :confused:

Austin

[dthurk]

Oh, I guess that explains why half the threads in the campfire are started by me  :confused:
 
 Austin

Yeah!  We've finally discovered your motive.  

[AustinBoston]

Yeah!  We've finally discovered your motive.  

That's what you think, anyway...

Austin

[dthurk]

That's what you think, anyway...
 
 Austin

Just teasing, anyway.  Actually, I think some of the thread ideas you come up with are pretty interesting.

[AustinBoston]

Just teasing, anyway.  Actually, I think some of the thread ideas you come up with are pretty interesting.

But just some of them.  Judging by the number of replies many of them get, You and I may be the only ones who think that.

Austin

[dthurk]

But just some of them.  Judging by the number of replies many of them get, You and I may be the only ones who think that.
 
 Austin

And...I'm beginning to think you and I are the only ones remotely interested in this thread.  It's getting to be a private conversation.  Maybe we should plan a camping trip sometime to meet in the middle.  Then again, we're pointing toward a Yellowstone trip sometime in the summer of 2008.  Wonder how far out of a direct route you might be.

[AustinBoston]

And...I'm beginning to think you and I are the only ones remotely interested in this thread.  It's getting to be a private conversation.  Maybe we should plan a camping trip sometime to meet in the middle.  Then again, we're pointing toward a Yellowstone trip sometime in the summer of 2008.  Wonder how far out of a direct route you might be.

Hundreds of miles, prolly.  I don't have a map in front of me.  OTOH, DW grew up in Batavia just off the thruway, and still has family in the Rochester area.  I could see us heading out there for a wedding (or, as was the last trip, a funeral).  She also has family in Malone, in case you are way upstate.

Austin

[dthurk]

We're in the Corning area.  Batavia (or Rochester) is about 1.5 hours drive for us.  Malone would be probably 4 to 5 hours.  Alex Bay is about 4 hours, and my recollection is it'd be East of there.

This summer we're planning a trip to Acadia NP.  We've never been to Maine, and I'm looking forward to the trip.  I understand it's one of your favorite places.  We were thinking of spending some time in the Lake Champlain area on that trip.  My recollection is Malone's somewhere in that area.

[AustinBoston]

We're in the Corning area.

We spend our wedding night in (or very near) Corning.  That was over 24 years ago.  Is Lodge on the Green in Corning?  Anyway, it was only one night, then on to Shenandoa NP.

Batavia (or Rochester) is about 1.5 hours drive for us.  Malone would be probably 4 to 5 hours.  Alex Bay is about 4 hours, and my recollection is it'd be East of there.

Malone would probably be at least six hours from Corning.  It's on US Route 11, about 1-1/2-2 hours west of the top of Lake Champlain.

This summer we're planning a trip to Acadia NP.  We've never been to Maine, and I'm looking forward to the trip.  I understand it's one of your favorite places.

Enjoy!  One of the places you should visit is Anenome Cave.  It's not on any park maps, but is very near a parking area.  You will have to find out from the locals where it is.  It is a seacave filled with tidal pools and cliff swallows.  But use some sense; visit when the tide is low and still falling.  People get trapped in the cave every year by rising tides.  The NPS does not like to (or simply refuses to) rescue people from the cave.

The water is very cold, so don't expect to do much swimming, even at the beaches.  There are lakes and ponds (filled with melting snow) that are warmer if you want to swim.

We were thinking of spending some time in the Lake Champlain area on that trip.

Would you stay on the New York side or the Vermont side?  On the New York side, be sure to visit Ft. Ticonderoga.  A less spectacular site is Fort Independence, wich is in total ruins and is on the Vermont side almost within sight of Ft. Ti.

Trivia question: Poet Robert Frost is the only person to be considered a native Vermonter who was not actually biorn there.  Do you know where he was born?

Austin
Austin

[dthurk]

The Lodge on the Green, aka The Shack in the Grass, is about 3 miles away from us.  It's in Painted Post, known as Corning area and is still operating.  We eat in their restaurant occasionally.  

I had an uncle and family who lived in Chazy when I was young, MUCH younger and smaller than I am now.  He worked at the Plattsburg Air Force Base.  I knew Malone was up there somewhere, I had ridden through it during those years.  Haven't been back up there since elementary school.  Driving in that area from Alex Bay to Lake Champlain in the winter is not for the faint of heart.  We'll probably be staying in a campground on an island on the Vermont side.  It's a Passport America campground.  We like to save money.  

Is that supposed to be Anemone or as you wrote it?   Sounds neat, but you'd better watch the water pretty carefully.  

I think Robert Frost was born out in the west, California maybe?  I don't think he lived in Vermont until later in his life.

[AustinBoston]

Is that supposed to be Anemone or as you wrote it?   Sounds neat, but you'd better watch the water pretty carefully.

Yes, I spelled it wrong.  

If you are into bicycling, there are many miles of carriage paths on Mt. Desert Island.  They are much wider than a typical multi-use path (a.k.a. "bike path"), and have a hard packed gravel surface.  They do very little interacting with roads; generally, a stone bridge is used to make sure road and carriage path do not interact.  I'm not sure I woudl use a road bike on them; the surface is neither hard enough or smooth enough for sufficient traction with the narrow tires of a street bike.  But anything else would be OK, such as cruisers, hybrids, and mountain bikes.  I believe bikes are available in Bar Harbor, and probably in other places.

We once hired a carriage for a ride up one of the mountians to watch the sunset.  Unfortunately, it was foggy, so we saw no sunset, but we did see a red fox cross in front of us, then pace us (from in the woods) for about 50 feet or so.  When his curiosity was satisified, he turned and was gone in the woods and the fog.

I think Robert Frost was born out in the west, California maybe?  I don't think he lived in Vermont until later in his life.

Yes, Frost was born in California.  His father, who was born in New England, came to hate the whole north because of the Civil War.  He dragged the family to California, where Robert Frost was born.  When he was 10 or 11, his father died, and as his last wish asked to be buried in New England.  So Mom sold everything, packed up the kids, and made a one-way trip back to New England.  Frost lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and London, England (that's where poets were supposed to live in those days) before settling in Vermont.  There are several Frost farms that are open to the public in New Hampshire and Vermont.

Austin