Having groan up with my childhood bedroom literally feet from US-20 (Mom & Dad’s bedroom is even closer) I wanted to travel across US-20 from Albany to our campsite at The Ridge Campground near Letchworth State Park just west of the Finger Lakes. This not only provided us with great scenery as we traversed across the state of New York, but it also avoided the heavy tolls required to use I-90. So today we left Beth’s sister Kathy’s house in East Greenbush, NY (suburb across the river from Albany) and took I-90 west until the US-20 exit just prior to the toll booths.
Although it rained a good portion of the trip, the scenery was great and we got to see a lot of beautiful homes as we passed through the towns that bordered each of the Finger Lakes. US-20 traverses some fairly serious hills as it crosses the state prior to the Finger Lakes. There were several occasions where I had to downshift the RV clear to second gear just to maintain 25 to 30 MPH. That was a first and it really made the Caterpillar C7 snort (probably a good test for the mountains out West). Beth discovered that there was a Rest/Parking Area right on Cazenovia Lake. This was a perfect place to stop for lunch although we had to remain in the camper because it was raining.
We pulled into the campground around 4PM. This is a nice campground close to the State Park. We opted for full hookups which restricted us to 30 Amp power. Fortunately we can get both air conditioners running on 30 Amps if we restrict the refrigerator and water heater to propane gas instead of electricity. This was necessary as the temperature climbed into the 90’s on our last day. Initially we didn’t have good internet access from our Verizon Mi-Fi, but after connecting an antenna and testing several spots in the camper we were able to achieve 5 Mbs upload/download speeds. There were no trees near our site (#3) so we were able access all three satellites on the Dish Western Arc. Although our site looked fairly level, it wasn’t. We moved the RV several times on the site to find the spot that was closest to level, but our passenger front tire ended up several inches off the ground once “Bubbles” leveled the RV. If we were staying longer I would have driven the right side up on ramps.
Site #3