campadk wrote:Great to see you're coming Thomas!
Thanks, me too.
I'm usually very outgoing about this sort of thing, but I'm finding myself rather aprehensive this time 'round. Driving with a trailer is still fairly new to me and not quite second nature. I'd really hate to wipe out or blow my transmission (not to mention wasting gas), so I'd like to plan on taking it slow -- but I see I haven't left myself a lot of travel time.
Does anybody know how long it takes to get from Exit 31 (Utica / NYS Thruway) to the campgrounds? I was planning on it taking 90 minutes, but ASK.COM suggests that it's more like two hours. The Thruway drive time is easy to calculate. If it really is two hours from the Thruway to the campgrounds, we'll have an hour for my wife to pick the kids up from school, pick me up from work, and then get out of the county (and onto the Thruway) if we want to be there by 8 pm. That's doable, but only just. Any information on travel times would help put my mind at ease.
We like to hike - our two-year-old did the whole Gorge Trail at Watkins' Glenn. I'm not usually one for visiting shops... but you never know. We've already had our water park day for the summer, so I won't cry over Water Safari being closed. We like haning out at the playground. I also like to cook out, and I love meeting new people.
Adding to my anxiety is the fact that I did a hack-job on certain aspects of my trailer so far and I'm trying to figure out if I can get that fixed...along with the screen the kids busted ... and the holes in the tent floor .. all in a weeks time. Oh well, good thing we've got a three day weekend coming up.
I haven't made up my mind about bringing the canoe. We'll leave the bigger musical instruments at home, but I'll bring some small ones just in case.