Hemlock Hall, September 6, 2007

We had another sumptuous breakfast, then packed up
and said our goodbyes. What a lovely two days we
had. We drove a back road through the woods to
Old Forge, at Jim's suggestion. It was a pretty
route and we were not in a hurry so enjoyed it
very much. We visited the Old Forge Country Store/
Hardware store. Robert bought a Mass. Delorme
map, one of the few still missing in our collection.
Old Forge is much like Estes Park, Colorado. A
town built for tourists. I suppose it had other
forms of income in the past, logging certainly,
but now mostly tourists.

We stopped just west of Cazenovia, NY in Pompey
Hollow to visit our friends Walt and Trudy Moore.
Trudy was in town when we arrived, unannounced,
but Walt was home. We had fun catching up on
the last four years with Walt and Trudy arrived
after a while and then another friend of Trudy's
with whom Trudy used to play tennis. They
both coached at the local high school for a while.
We stayed a couple of hours and went on our
way. Trudy was, clearly, glad to see us and thanked
us for stopping and apologized that our visit had
to be so short and that next week hadn't worked
out for us to have a longer visit. But, perhaps the
two hours was enough.

We went on to Seneca Falls where we spent the
night.