Arrived late Sunday afternoon after a nice drive from the seaway west on 37 to US11 to I-87 south. We are in a campground about 15 miles south of Schroon Lake and about the same north of Lake George village.
We took off early this morning to find the old cabin we spent some time at back when we were children. I could not find it, but I believe I found where it used to be, but the area is all newer log cabin McMansions now. After that we drove out to Ft. Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. It was a very nice day, high 70’s and not too humid. Toured the fort and then headed down toward the King’s garden. They had a formal garden, not Versailles but pretty nice for Upstate NY. And they even had a few large vegetable gardens just outside the walls of the formal garden that they used in the restaurant and at the fort for the authentic food the soldiers ate.
After touring the gardens, we started looking for Mt. Defiance following a fairly odd map from the historical society. We actually got there, but I was not sure we would. It’s a long drive up a very bumpy paved track, not really a road, but like a wide driveway for a couple miles. After parking we had quite a walk up a very steep walkway. The pups had to pull Kathy up to the top! From there we could see many miles in each direction on Lake Champlain, and a good view of the fort probably a mile or more off in the distance below us.
Finding places to get lunch with two pups hasn’t been easy since leaving Cali, but we did go into one restaurant in the town of Ticonderoga and they told us about a restaurant called Wind Chill Factory. We found it a few miles out of town and ordered lunch to eat on the patio, actually the only place to eat was outside on the patio for everyone. Wasn’t bad, had a decent Philly Cheese Steak sandwich, and now I can’t wait to get to Philly for a real one!
After lunch we drove down Rt 9N. What’s the N stand for, who knows. It’s quite a nice road that goes along the lakes all the way down to Lake George Village. Beautiful drive, and Bolton Landing was a surprising little town that was really nice, and had lots of tourists flitting about. I hadn’t seen any mention of that town anywhere. It’s right on Lake George.
