{"id":2289,"date":"2017-08-14T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T23:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2017-08-15T08:29:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T15:29:48","slug":"a-new-day-near-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2017\/08\/14\/a-new-day-near-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"A new day near the river."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>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.\u00a0\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0\u00a0 I drove down there and went to pick up a cart.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s where it started to get odd.\u00a0\u00a0 All the carts were chained together.\u00a0 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. \u00a0I looked and couldn’t find it so I relented and went inside and asked what the trick was.\u00a0\u00a0 No trick she said, just put in a quarter in the handle slot and the chain opens.\u00a0\u00a0 What an odd thing.\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Now I had a cart. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0The food was different, everything, even the produce, was in plastic.\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing about the veggies left me with the impression that they were fresh.\u00a0\u00a0 Most of the food was Aldi’s brand,\u00a0 not a lot was any name brand I had ever heard of.<\/p>\n

I loaded what I could find and headed for the checkout.\u00a0\u00a0 That went OK until I got out to the car and noticed nothing was in bags. \u00a0She had just put everything in the bottom of the cart!<\/p>\n

I am not going back to an Aldi’s anytime soon.\u00a0\u00a0 Probably ever.<\/p>\n

Got it back to the coach and then headed back to find a real grocery store.\u00a0 On \"\"<\/a>the way out I saw a few turkeys on the side of the road,\u00a0 had to stop and take a picture.\u00a0 You just don’t see them wandering around the roads in San Diego.<\/p>\n

There was a really nice grocery store almost across the street from the odd one.<\/p>\n

I was able to find everything I needed except for fresh carrots,\u00a0 I have not seen fresh carrots since we left CA.\u00a0\u00a0 Everything is bagged.<\/p>\n

Friday night we had another thunder storm move thru.\u00a0 Thankfully not much wind so I just made sure we were fully battened down and went back to bed.\u00a0 Kathy said she couldn’t sleep, there was too much lightning and thunder.\u00a0 Baxter crawled up toward us and hunkered down under the cover after one particularly loud thunder clap.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>On Saturday we took a ride around the area and found a \"\"<\/a>ghost bridge.\u00a0\u00a0 It looked like it was a fairly substantial bridge, but the entrance on both sides was boarded up and overgrown.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0\u00a0 The boys just watched them and started wagging their tails when they took off and landed in the water.\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Geez,\u00a0 the weather radio just squawked with another severe thunderstorm and hail headed toward us.\u00a0\u00a0 This weather crap is starting to get old!<\/p>\n

We are heading out toward Schroon Lake in the morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0\u00a0 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 … <\/p>\n

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