Trippin' with Susan Straley

September 10, 2023 You should feel special because I could have given up after I lost the looong letter I wrote to you.   Then when I recreated the looong post, it must have went to most everyones junk mail or spam inbox because the open rate was down to almost zero.  I miss my friends.  I am really looking forward to reconnecting with my Florida friends.  I didn't want to leave you hanging.  I don't want to be forgotten. I want to keep in touch with you.   I am back in Wisconsin, near my Sister.  It is a rainy day.  Steve is reading a very funny book.  Every once in a while he starts laughing and laughing.   Anxious People  is the title.  And I am at my computer writing and writing and up loading pictures.   I hope I didn't bore you with all the pictures and stories of these past few days. Tomorrow we head back to New York.  Taking five days to do it.  Then we will start preparing for our third bicycle tour of the year.  Washington DC to Pittsburgh all on trail... unless a

 It is Thursday, September 14, 2023 I have just removed my things from Steve's trailer and put them back in My truck and Weeroll. My weeroll was full of stuff because I made toom in my truck bed or Steve's bike. My home is looking  more like home now. I am at 4-mile Creek State Park Campground near Niagra Falls, NY. I will tell you why I moved my stuff out later. That has nothing to do with the do over. I noticed that my last post was way too long.  I had said I would post every day of our bike tour. That didn't happen for so many reasons, time, energy, lack of cell service, among them. The do-over is breaking up the post into smaller, hopefully more iinteresting posts So here goes. Cooling off in Spring Green, Wisconsin Hurricane Idalia missed our friends' homes and Steve's house in Florida.  Yay!  Though there was a lot of damage in our county (Citrus) along the coast from the surge.  I hope you and yours are OK. I posted something on Facebook about our hike on Mt

 I told you I was going to fill you in on the trip Steve and I did, canoeing and camping in the Adirondacks. Unfortunately we had only a window of one night to camp out in the wilderness because the weather report announced scattered storms.  The weather is unpredictable especially in the mountains.  But we found a couple days and one night all together with wonderful weather. Steve and his wife Margaret used to canoe/kayak and camp.  He love love loves it, especially if he can get to a beautiful spot totally isolated from human noises and where he rarely sees another human being. So he did the planning on this trip and I just followed along and enjoyed myself. He has these light-weight one-person canoes for carrying from lake to lake.  They are about 15-17 lbs empty. We left Steve's trailer parked in the campground. We drove a way (an hour?) to get into a place where we could park. Before we left the car we signed in and discovered there was one other couple and their dog that had