Thursday, August 9, 2012

Houses, Barns, Silos: LOVE 'EM

These are shots along the highway in upstate New York on the way to Niagara Falls.
A few lighthouses thrown in too.


These next three photos almost created a panic.
 In our fervor to find a lighthouse we saw in some tourist information  we learned that this one was now "private"
We told the gal in the tourist information office that we were towing a trailer & asked if the lighthouse road would have a "turn around"spot.

She said "no problem" we could actually go down the road until we see the church & use its parking lot and walk a 100 yards or so to view the lighthouse.

When we were looking for the church we find ourselves looking AT the lighthouse property & knew we were in trouble. No church, no big parking lot. No turn around. YIKES....now what?

Luckily the narrow lighthouse road has other residences on it & many of them have boats. Which meant there would be at least some one's yard in which to make our U-Turn. We were watched by neighbors a few neighbors all along the road as THEY knew what we were in for.

There WAS a little wider spot as we came to the dead end street. It was just wide enough for our U-Turn with only backing up once to "make it" without going onto someone's yard.

We are so glad to have our little-shoe-box of a trailer. We've had to make quite a few U-Turns as trips progress.

I think this lighthouse/now residence  below was worth the experience.


Lots of trees made it difficult to get a shot.



Lastly on this route to Niagara falls we had planned to spend some time in the Thousand Islands area of upper NY & even perhaps the Finger Lakes but realized we were being way too ambitious.
That will have to be our next trip back east because we've already had lots more stopovers than we planned so far & we really need to get to eastern Canada before it gets too late.
Here's a photo of the overnight-only-campground we stayed at in the Thousand Islands area.



That's us on the right.




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