Keuka Lake And State Park

After Memorial weekend, we separated from Joe and Lynn and headed to Keuka Lake State Park.  My father was in town and he owns a cottage on this lake, so we thought we’d drop in for a visit.  Keuka Lake is one of the Finger Lakes in this region.

It’s a beautiful lake and region.  If you ever find yourself passing through this area, you have to stop by.  Their are tons of activities, award winning wineries as well as lots of history.  Make sure you give yourself plenty of time in this region.  There is lots to see and do.

We stayed at the Keuka Lake New York State Park which as luck would have it, was only 10 minutes from my father’s cottage.  The campsites at the park are large, complete with picnic tables and fire rings.  We are 42 feet and their were quite a few spots that would fit us.  With level gravel drives (at least ours was), some with 30 amp service and hiking trails a plenty, I would highly recommend this as a base of operations.

We went hiking and found some geocaches along the way.

As I have mentioned in previous posts, we enjoy geocaching because it takes you to places you would normally not know were there.  As long as you watch where you are stepping that is.  We recently found ourselves in poison ivy while reaching for the cache.  Luckily we were not affected by it as it was too late that we noticed it was poison ivy.

We were up on this hill and found this geocache by the street sign.  The title of the geocache was “Where U R”.  Well, that title made no sense to us.  Until we looked a little further down and in a farmer’s field we saw this…

The farmer had plowed out the letters USA in the middle of his field.  Talking to some locals, we believe it was his tribute to the 9/11 tragedy.  Be sure to click on the picture to enlarge it so you can see this more clearly.

Being lunch time we headed into Penn Yan, NY for some site seeing and lunch.

Being as old as it is, Penn Yan has a lot of historical homes and buildings.

We sat down on the dock overlooking the lake.  It’s cooler by the water’s edge.  We had a nice dinner.  Went for ice cream.  Don’t judge, it was hot.  Although we really don’t need an excuse to eat ice cream.  Said our good-bye’s and went back to our motor home.

The next morning we set out on the road to head home.  We took the familiar back roads through the countryside and had some wonderful views out our large window.

In another week and a half we will be heading to Pennsylvania, with Joe and Lynn (no kids) to experience our first Nascar event at the Pocono’s Speedway.  We are camping in the infield so that will be totally outside our bubble, and our comfort zone.  So stay tuned for those posts and see how we did!