Through the Great Lakes in the “Spring”

We finished off our “East Coast Adventure” in much more of a rush than we had planned. Things were closed for the season, and we had someone expecting us back. Now those pressures were gone. We had time and we didn’t really know where we were headed, except west. This was a luxury we didn’t have when we moved east last August, so we could take some time to wander our way back west. We did have the boat to tow, so that limits our options of adventures a tad bit. We chose a route that took us through northern New York, then through the great lakes region and we were off, westward bound.

Our first night was at a beautiful lake in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. The loons and owls were our only company for the night.

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To Maine and Acadia

After our day at Antietam we jumped on the Mid-Atlantic Backcountry Discovery Route as it crossed the Pennsylvania state line. Our trip south a few weeks earlier through Pennsylvania was one filled with traffic, congestion, and cities, but the BDR took us well off the beaten path and showed us a more rural, relaxed and beautiful side of the state that we enjoyed immensely.

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Antietam

In one day in September 1862 Antietam Creek went from the site of a quiet meandering creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, to the site of the bloodiest day of the Civil War and of American History with about 23,000 killed, wounded or missing.

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