September 29, 2009

• Summer’s End

  Well, Summer is definitely past up here in the North Woods. After a beautiful September – crisp and cool nights and days, we are beginning to experience the delights of steady cold, clammy, drizzle. Except for the Loons, our lake is deserted.
  Our cabin is a good deal more comfortable than it has been in past years – we have added a good deal of space and electric baseboard heaters throughout the cottage – as well as new draft-tight windows.
  We will be here for another week or so and then make our annual snowbird trek down to North Florida.

  We will sort of follow Fall colors down. It is possible to drive the length of the East Coast without getting into too many traffic jams, but you have to be creative – and it does take a little longer.
  We will take a whole day just to get to Southern Vermont – driving West through the Maine Western Mountains and then down through the White Mountains of NH. We’ll visit our grandniece’s organic farm in Southern NH.
  Next we drive down through Western MA, take the Taconic Parkway down through NY and drive across Northern PA and down through MD, WV,and western VA following the Appalachians and the Shennandoah Valley until we reach the Smokies. Asheville and Sylva NC should be beautiful this time of year.
  We drive the length of GA – from Tallullah Falls to Tallahassee FL, avoiding Atlanta and any other big city traffic.
  We will have to follow main routes because finding handicap facilities on back roads is almost impossible but it is possible to avoid a lot of traffic and enjoy the trip.

  I no longer have to depend on Motel internet connections – can even go online while we are driving ( I won’t) thanks to Verizon’s G3 broadband network. I anything exciting happens, I’ll let you know

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