Decisions

Some decisions turn out badly, some just okay and some turn out to be great! The idea for our communications and then the decision to rent a car for a few days for the New York section of the trip both turned out to be terrific. But I get just a bit ahead of myself ... we left off when we were departing Virginia through even more traffic and then once we were out of that we were on country roads, still highways I suppose but mostly one lane each way and it was like that all the way to our next destination, Mansfield, Pennsylvania.

In Mansfield we headed for the local Enterprise car rental which turned out to be a desk in the local Ford dealership! Anyway, there we picked up our rental which they upgraded to a Ford Edge SUV and Holly got to follow the Wolf out to our next stop, Bucktail RV Resort. This turned out to be up some dirt roads and hills and must have been quite interesting for Geoff driving Timmber Wolf!

A slight digression here ... as most recently discussed in I Can Hear You! we worked out communication attached to ball caps and for those who wondered, they worked out wonderfully especially in the noise and navigation nightmare of rush hour metropolitan Virginia traffic! We had also found that they worked at a short distance and were quite useful for the indoor and outdoor portions of hooking up and disconnecting at park sites. They also work wonderfully when one is in a car following (or being followed by) Timmber Wolf. I may not have been in the Wolf between the rental place and the RV Park but I sure heard Geoff's comments on the way!!!

Anyway, we arrived at Bucktail RV Resort, registered, and got parked in our space. Bucktail looks to be a great resort with activities for families and children but not really our cup of tea. Fortunately for our plans we were sleeping there that night and then heading off in the rental car for New York, leaving Timmber Wolf behind to rest at Bucktail until our return in a few days.

Saturday morning we headed out in the rental for our hotel in Elmira, New York, ... more country roads! But now we were not in the lumbering Timmber Wolf but in the relatively nimble Edge and I love driving country roads. We would definitely have been under a strain driving the Wolf on this portion of the trip and Geoff was ready for a break after the Virginia traffic.

We arrived at the hotel, the Holiday Inn Elmira Riverview, and got our room, ground floor with an accessible shower so our old bones didn't have to struggle getting in and out. After dinner out we relaxed in our room without having to do anything. The next morning I even though to look out the window where we can not actually see the river as there is a high bank but I caught some wildlife on camera.

This one was my first sight when I looked out and is included especially for my sister who saw a similar sight of a Canadian goose and her goslings when she visited us in Florida.

Just moments after the geese disappeared over the ridge, this groundhog waddled down the slope and then across, hunting delicacies for breakfast I imagine. I figured at this point I was done with the wildlife but then right after the groundhog waddled back over the hillside to vanish on the river side this pair of squirrels started squabbling across the ground. Now I don't know if they were fighting, or loving or playing but they kept at each other. It can be a bit hard to see that there are two rolling around on the ground but look closely.

On Sunday we drove on even smaller country roads out to see family, a subject for the next blog. All in all good decisions to do the communications system and to take a few days break and rent a car.