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Our home for the next 3 nights. On our way south from Robert Moses State Park, we made a stop at the Waybury Inn, Vermont. For those who are not TV sitcom watchers, the Waybury Inn was used as the facade for the Stratford Inn on Newhart show, starring of course Professor Proton…I mean Bob Newhart. I remember watching this show religiously.

We are staying at the Kampfires RV Park. There are two nice things about this place. We were in a section of our own, site number C5, and there were no seasonal campers. There is nothing wrong with seasonal campers as long as the campsite has requirements on the amount of “stuff” they can accumulate on their sites….and sometimes the age of their trailer.

Its been a great couple of days days here at Robert Moses. Spent a lot of time visiting the Bevins. We enjoyed every minute. Tomorrow we are heading to Brattleboro, Vermont.

Another great day at the park. i still have not been able to sleep in, so I headed to Potsdam to do a little grocery shopping. I decided I wanted to “beat the rush” so I had breakfast at the Village Diner. Food was good but pricey. When I returned to the Park, the beach was calling me. The water was perfect, warm but cool enough to refresh. Dinner tonight was pizza done of the campfire. That was the first time I remember doing that.

I missed a couple of rain showers on the way to Higley Flow, but by the time I arrived all the rain had stopped. Set up the camp, helped the couple back up their rig onto site 20, then went for a swim. The water was great! Cooked dinner during a thunder and rain shower. Tonight will be a comfortable night for sleeping with the windows opened.

The weather was hot and humid, but the company was great and so was the food. This was the 7th annual Fickling Family picnic, held at the farm of Cindy and Gary Fickling (my cousins). We had an excellent time!

I woke up this morning not feeling day older. It was hot again this morning, but that did not stop me from starting the fire and cooking one of my favourite meals….eggs, bacon, and toast. I took it easy around the campsite, reading my book, relaxing, until my dinner gusts arrived. We had chicken and potatoes over the campfire and finished it with a hamburger shaped cake with ice cream. A very good day…..

Woke up to the steady sound of rain today. Checked the radar and forecast and it looked liked a day for indoor activities. I lounged around until about 09:30, then I made may way to the St. Thomas Railway Museum. The building and exhibits were really interesting. It made me feel a little old though, because as I read the descriptions on the rail cars and I discovered that they were built or retired in the 1970’s….and they are in a museum….and they are considered “old”….I was born in 1964…. After the museum, I headed into to London and caught the movie “Aladdin – the live version” It certainly met my expectations. ON the way home I swung through St Thomas to pick uo a couple of geocaches. The heat/humidity made it a more challenging. I was only successful on one. Time to head back to the campsite for a swim and a campfire……

It may be hard to tell, but the “brick mural” depicts the collision between a locomotive and Jumbo the Barnum and Bailey elephant in St Tomas. Unfortunately, Jumbo lost in the encounter.

We were all silly enough to forget to take a couple of pictures of us all together, but I did get a picture of me searing the roast beef……. My cousins Kelly, Tommy and Jennifer came to the campsite last night to have dinner with me. We had baked potato, carrots done in orange juice and maple syrup, and a roast beef. All done on the campfire. Cookies and Cream cake and ice cream for dessert. It was great meeting up with them. The rain managed to hold off……

Slept in until 07:00 this morning. Not Bad. Oatmeal and orange juice for breakfast. Last night Stephanie said I needed to go to Port Dover and have a meal at the Crepe House. She had just seen it on a rerun of “You gotta eat here!”, a program on the food network. So began the tour. I stopped at the Crepe House and had the Turkey Dinner crepe. It was delicious, and very filling. Not enough room for their butter tart crepe, at least not yet. I walked around the town checking out the sites and doing some geocaching. About 2 hours later I returned to the Crepe House and asked for the butter tart crepe “to go”. Then on to Port Bruce, Port Burwell and then Port Stanley. I decided to go swimming here. The last time, was over 20 years ago, when Stephanie and I were courting. By this time it was 19:15 so it was time to head back to the campsite and have a fire…..but one last stop at the elephant statue in St Thomas. This was erected to remember Jumbo the elephant that was killed by a train in St. Thomas.