{"id":28302,"date":"2015-08-10T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=28302"},"modified":"2015-08-10T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T22:25:08","slug":"road-trip-to-lake-placid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=28302","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip to Lake Placid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whew!\u00a0 It has been a busy few weeks.\u00a0 When I learned that Mr. Right would be away 10 weeks<\/a> this summer, I decided to plan my own personal solo road trip.\u00a0 That trip along with a bicycling trip in France plus a conference meant that I would be home only five days in the month of July.\u00a0 Now that August has arrived and I am safely back home, I can smile and say the trip was so worth all of the driving it required (over 2,500 miles).<\/h3>\n

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First up, I drove 15 hours over two days from Lexington to Lake Placid, NY to join the rest of the family in cheering on Yankee who did his first full Ironman competition.\u00a0 The drive was absolutely gorgeous.\u00a0 My son suggested that if I avoided toll roads, then the drive would be more scenic.\u00a0 He was right.\u00a0 There were tons of beautiful farms along the way.<\/h3>\n

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We rented a house in the woods for the week and enjoyed many of the activities Lake Placid has to offer.<\/h3>\n

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It is a great place for a family vacation because there are tons of both outdoor and indoor activities to do.\u00a0 We all had plenty to do like hike, bike, swim, and paddle board.<\/h3>\n

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We toured some of the venues for the 1980 Winter Olympics.\u00a0 One day we went to the top of the bob sled run, which is one mile long. You can see how steep the turns are in this photo.<\/h3>\n

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Since the rides were already booked, they let us walk to the bottom.<\/h3>\n

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We enjoyed touring historic venues of the 1980 winter Olympics.<\/h3>\n

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Many of you will remember the story behind this photo.\u00a0 What a great day that was!\u00a0 I even remember what I wore on the day of the Miracle on Ice.<\/h3>\n

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We also enjoyed seeing a summer ski jumping demonstration.\u00a0 Since there was no snow, some of the athletes, while wearing their skis, boots, and helmets, jumped into swimming pools from the ramps. They need the training any way they can get it.<\/h3>\n

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It’s amazing how high these jumps are.\u00a0 This one was 22 stories high.\u00a0 I can’t wrap my brain around how daunting it must be to do the first jump.<\/h3>\n

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We were allowed to go to the top in an elevator.\u00a0 We could see what seemed like forever.\u00a0 Can you spot Jordan in this shot?\u00a0 She’s there beside her brother whom you might remember from this<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

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One day when it was raining, we went to an international ice dancing competition.\u00a0 We had never been to skating competitions before, and it was really fun.\u00a0 The behind-the-scenes did remind us a little bit of the movie, “Best in Show.”<\/h3>\n

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From Lake Placid I drove to Owen Sound, ON and met up with Mr. Right who had spent 8 weeks bicycling there from Vancouver, BC.\u00a0 We spent the night in Owen Sound and then drove to Muskoka, which is known as “cottage country” to Canadians.<\/h3>\n

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Our friends (these are the same friends we have done this<\/a> with in England where they live six months of the year) own a three-acre island there that has been in their family for over fifty years.\u00a0 They spend all of their summers there.\u00a0 It was like walking back in time.<\/h3>\n

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We enjoyed boat races at their club and quiet time on the island.\u00a0 This is the view from one of their decks.\u00a0 One late fall week-end a few years ago we were on their island when there was a power failure, and we had no electricity the entire time.\u00a0 It was magical.\u00a0 We built a fire in their massive fireplace and cooked our meals out on their grill.\u00a0 It was so much fun.<\/h3>\n

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All good things have to end, though.\u00a0 I drove Mr. Right and me to Toronto where we spent a day and then I left and he returned to his cycling.\u00a0 On the way back to Lexington I spent a night with my parents and brought my 88-year-old mother<\/a> home with me for the week.\u00a0 We had a great time together.\u00a0 But now life is back to normal as I wait for Mr. Right to finish up his trip and return home to me.<\/h3>\n

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Take care.<\/h3>\n

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Map image from Googlemaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whew!\u00a0 It has been a busy few weeks.\u00a0 When I learned that Mr. Right would be away 10 weeks this summer, I decided to plan my own personal solo road trip.\u00a0 That trip along with a bicycling trip in France plus a conference meant that I would be home only five days in the month […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28302"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28331,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28302\/revisions\/28331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}