On the 27th, packed up from the Royal Mountain Campground, we headed further north to North Creek to ride rail bikes.
We stayed at The Alpine Lodge which (unless I somehow missed it) did not market itself as “staff less” when we booked, but learned that was the case when we arrived. Had we not arrived early enough to catch someone on the property and get the Wi-Fi password it would have been a problem since we had no cell service and our room access code was only provided via email at our check in time.
As much as I like not needing to interact with people, when I’m paying money for something I much prefer having someone to fix things as needed. Like “I need to get into my room and something’s wrong with the lock” (which didn’t happen) or “a kid in the room above is stomping around and jumping off the bed from midnight to 2 AM” (which did). I finally got up and found the room (since access to those rooms was from the opposite side of the building it wasn’t obvious which room it was) and asked them to please make it stop. I didn’t get shot. The noise settled down until about 6 I think.
Anyway, the reason we were there was for the rail bikes which we rode after eating lunch at the diner next to the hotel (and some ice cream down the street). A nice ride along the Hudson River. We were the only people in the group with the guides so at least when Heather freaked out about a mosquito that landed on her we weren’t disturbing anyone else.
I bought a frozen pizza from the grocery store across the street from our hotel to eat for dinner (the hotel room had an oven). That was convenient since there really wasn’t anything else around. Not sure there were any restaurants open for dinner within 20 miles.
I also discovered we were back in Drake’s Cakes territory and bought the first Funny Bones of the trip. Yay!
The 28th would take us across Lake Champlain and to the start of the family reunion.