Man, this past week was the heart of my summer vacation and there’s still more fun to come. I’ve got 30 days of vacation stacked up and an intent to spend them this summer. It started last saturday, my mom was in town so we went out to breakfast with my aunt and uncle in Corinth. I decided to take backroads home and found public access to the hudson river on state lands and a quick trip later I was back with Soolin to spend the bulk of the day floating and swimming in the hudson. Sunday I got up early and took Soolin to Peaked Mountain, where we spent the day hiking and swimming. It was an excellent hike, I’ll post the pictures soon. Monday we got up and went with Andrew to his mom’s house in Cambridge NY, where we tubed the baten kill river (spelling?) while Soolin spent the day on the farm stalking pheasants and turkeys and who knows what all else. We capped the weekend with a barbecue. Tuesday I worked for a few hours then went home to prepare for a camping trip at Roger’s Rock on the north end of Lake George, and wednesday morning Soolin and I got up and headed off for the hour or so drive to the campground. What a blast we had – hiking to the top of Roger’s Rock, swimming, boating, kayaking, tubing (of the behind the boat variety), and playing with all the clan’s little kiddies – like 6-7 kids all between the ages of 3 and 7. The only downer was that it rained hard for a good piece of saturday, putting a serious damper on what would have been one of the most active boating days, and ending the trip early as we all decided to bail rather than stay overnight saturday night. Still, what a week! I spent all day sunday lounging around recuperating from my vacation. I get to do it all over again in a few weeks when I head off for another camping trip on lake George.

Anyway, this post serves as an explanation for the lack of posting over the last week+, been too busy having fun to sit in front of the machines and work on stuff. I have a ton of photos to post (going all the way back to hikes I took in May!), hopefully I’ll get to at least some of them this week.