We needed to add to the stores for the weekend so I headed out to find a grocery store after an unexpected 3- hour blackout. Since it was pretty muggy by noon when it started, we got to exercise the genny to keep everything going including both A/C’s.
Not far from the campground was an Aldi’s, kind of hidden way off the road down in a hollow, not sure how I was able to spot that. I drove down there and went to pick up a cart. That’s where it started to get odd. All the carts were chained together. I had just seen two folks grab carts not 25 feet in front of me, so I figured it must get real windy here so there’s got to be a trick to undoing the chains. I looked and couldn’t find it so I relented and went inside and asked what the trick was. No trick she said, just put in a quarter in the handle slot and the chain opens. What an odd thing. Anyway I headed back toward the car to see if I could find a quarter in the cup holder or under the seats, but before I could get there, the lady in the car next to me had her door opened so I couldn’t get to mine. I mentioned I needed to find a quarter to get a cart and she said to take her cart, then she got in her car and drove off.
Now I had a cart. I went inside only to find it’s one of those places that hems you in with all the crates and boxes so you have to walk all the way to the back of the store first. The food was different, everything, even the produce, was in plastic. Nothing about the veggies left me with the impression that they were fresh. Most of the food was Aldi’s brand, not a lot was any name brand I had ever heard of.
I loaded what I could find and headed for the checkout. That went OK until I got out to the car and noticed nothing was in bags. She had just put everything in the bottom of the cart!
I am not going back to an Aldi’s anytime soon. Probably ever.
Got it back to the coach and then headed back to find a real grocery store. On 
the way out I saw a few turkeys on the side of the road, had to stop and take a picture. You just don’t see them wandering around the roads in San Diego.
There was a really nice grocery store almost across the street from the odd one.
I was able to find everything I needed except for fresh carrots, I have not seen fresh carrots since we left CA. Everything is bagged.
Friday night we had another thunder storm move thru. Thankfully not much wind so I just made sure we were fully battened down and went back to bed. Kathy said she couldn’t sleep, there was too much lightning and thunder. Baxter crawled up toward us and hunkered down under the cover after one particularly loud thunder clap.
On Saturday we took a ride around the area and found a 
ghost bridge. It looked like it was a fairly substantial bridge, but the entrance on both sides was boarded up and overgrown.
We also found a nice town park in Massena right on the river with lots of Canadian Geese wandering around and diving for fish in the river. The boys just watched them and started wagging their tails when they took off and landed in the water.
Geez, the weather radio just squawked with another severe thunderstorm and hail headed toward us. This weather crap is starting to get old!
We are heading out toward Schroon Lake in the morning!