West Point, NY

Sports fields at West Point

View from same pull off

Monday we decided to head up to the Thousand Trails Campground about an hour north of us. We got on the road about 10:00 and started up 9W, talk about some beautiful country. We weren't that far away from camp when I'm telling Brad to pull over. We could actually look down on part of West point as well as out over the valley, beautiful. I didn't realize that West Point actually sits right on the Hudson River. I know that the pictures can't due justice to the sights, but I think we pulled over 3 times in about a 5 mile drive. Finally I stopped fussing and we did manage to get up the road for about 1/2 hour, when I made Brad stop again. This time we are at the Minnewaska State Park Preserve. We didn't have shoes on for hiking, but we did the short nature trail out back and studied most of the exhibits they had, all in all it really was a nice place.

We headed up the road stopped in  a little place called Kerhonkson for lunch.  It was a little dinner and the food was wonderful.  From here were are only about another 1/2 hour from the campground we were looking for.  We found it and did a tour....not a bad place, might be stopping here on the way back from Maine.  From there Brad managed to get a little turned around getting us back on the main roads, but we made it.  We took different route home, so we weren't sure where we were compared to where we wanted to be.  I'm trying to follow the NY state map, and it is so polluted with roads and town names (and none that we are on or in) that I can't figure out anything.  I hate relying on solely the GPS to get us anywhere, but this time we had to.  We ended up coming back over this same mountain that we climbed on the way up, and stopped at a pull off for some more pictures. 

You think you can see forever from here

Tuesday we didn't do much.  Hung out at the grounds, did a load of laundry and went to the Commissary, via a car tour of West Point.  The Post is a bit larger than what we both thought it would be.  We did some sight seeing and then hit the Commissary on our way out.  Hung out for the night, had a camp fire and kept an eye on the olympics. 

FDR Home

Wednesday we stopped at Barnes and Nobles and I got a book '1000 places to visit before you die' in the US and Canada and from there headed up to tour FDR Home, Library and museum.  On the way we stopped at a dinner called 'The Eveready Diner', another one from  the Diners, Drive-ins and Dives tour.  The food was good and you got lots of it, so good pick for them and being right beside the FDR tour, it made it an easy choice for lunch.


Well  I got this caught up through Wednesday, so I'll quit here, and finish the rest tomorrow.  Maybe in the morning I'll have a clearer head.

Diane