Weekend at Home(ish)

After a brief visit to Portland on Friday for some motorcycling, eating, drinking, and general relaxation, I headed home to the Berkshires early Saturday morning to spend the second consecutive weekend with Kaity and Dad. From there we headed to a Wallace perennial favorite summer destination - The Great Escape in Lake George, New York.

I guess the Great Escape is one of those things in life that you remember as being one of the most wonderful fun amazing best times when you were a kid... when you go back years later and see it through slightly more grown-up eyes, you spend half the day looking for hand sanitizer. Nonetheless, The Comet is still hands-down my favorite roller coaster, as demonstrated below by my fellow Wallaces, a.k.a. Team Yellow.

We rode the Comet at least four times. Awesome.

In any case, the Great Escape was actually good fun, between the Comet and the pirate ship and the Raging River, and some wicked short lines due to passing rain showers throughout the day. We managed to stay dry until we hit up the Raging River on the way out, got reprimanded for running in front of the fantasy land parade, and then hit the road again to drive still further north to the Adirondacks.

Once arriving at Mandy's house in Keene Valley, we had a dinner that couldn't be beat, enjoyed a FIRE in the fireplace because the cool weather warranted it (August!!), watched a movie, and passed out. Dad and the dog and I opted for a camping experience in the lean-to and slept in sleeping bags on a bed of balsam boughs, listening to the rain pound overhead and the stream rush downhill through the woods.