Day 86: Harris Lake Campground, NY

We headed out ahead of Peter, thinking we'd likely see him later in the day.  Alea reached Harris Lake Campground ($23, primitive, free showers) near Newcomb, NY shortly after noon.  We texted Peter our details, though it took a LONG time for the text to actually get sent.  So we weren't sure he got our message.

Peter, Alea and I, saying Goodbye (for now) at the Post Office in Long Lake, NY.

We heard from him late in the afternoon, after he had reached Long Lake (16 miles farther down the road), where he was staying in a motel.  We would get notified of his texts, but when we logged on our phones to view them they would disappear.  Then in a few minutes we'd finally see the message, but we needed to manually download each one.  That made communication difficult, but thankfully not impossible.

Alea slogs up yet another hill...

So Alea and I had one of our more quiet evenings together of late.  And Lana got a chance to play for quite a while, chasing the ball in the shallow lake that we were camped on.  We even had our first chance of the season to sleep with the camper doors open and the screen doors in place, which is our preferred method of sleeping.  It gives us a tiny bit more room, and makes it impossible to accidentally hit the door handle when turning over.  And the warm cross breeze was awesome.

Our campsite at Harris Lake.

Of course our campsite was on a section of coastline that was muckier and had more reeds than where we had played ball.  And those reeds are home to several very loud bullfrogs.  That meant that after a while it wasn't so easy to stay asleep, due to the noise.  I guess we need to add that to our growing list of things to consider when selecting a campsite for the evening...