We pulled in to Pleasant Hill RV Park and Campground on Saturday July 29. We’ve been taking care of setting the camp up and some of the chores that go along with traveling. This is home for a month or so, theres talk that the campground may need a couple to camp host until October but nothing firm yet.
Tomorrow we leave Vermont and head to Scarborough Maine where we’ll lay over 1 night and than continue on to Hermon Maine and we’ll stay there for a month.
Vermont is a beautiful state to drive around. We drove around trying to find covered bridges and as we’re driving the paved road would end and we would find ourselves on a tree lined smooth dirt road it was like driving through a forest.
Kampfire RV Resort Dummerston VT
Covered Bridges and Buildings
Joy Wah Chinese Restaurant.
We left Western New York on Sunday the 23rd via the back roads what a beautiful drive. The road goes through small towns and endless farmland and you see the occasional Amish horse buggy. We stayed the night at a Walmart in Glenville New York and continued on the next day to Dummerston Vermont where we’ll lay over for 4 days to plan the trip to Maine. We would like to Workamp in Maine and stay until October but we are not having much luck finding work so Maine is a question mark. We went out exploring Vermont today what a beautiful place. Our first stop was the Robb Family Farm established in 1907 as a dairy farm and converted to Maple Syrup and Hay in 2011. Wow once you have farm fresh Maple Syrup you can’t go back to store bought. Very nice people nice tour, look them up online if your in South Eastern Vermont. Next we went to the cover bridge in Dummerston Vermont, built in the early 1800’s.
The bucket above is old school and the spike and tube is how its done today.
This is our final day at Niagara Falls and we wanted to stay until night-time so we could see the falls illuminated and watch the fireworks. We also went on the Maid of the Mist Boat Tour to the base of the Horseshoe Falls and The Cave of the Winds tour at the base of the Bridal Falls. We would highly recommend doing these two things if you go to Niagara Falls USA.
Near the State Park Visitors Center they have the Great Lakes Garden.
We visited a local a farm where we picked some Raspberries and did some wine and beer tasting.
We visited the Erie Canal and took a cave tour with an underground boat ride.
The Culinary Institute of Niagara Falls has a self guided tour and within its building it has a fine dinning restaurant, a New York style deli, pastry shop, and wine tasting. We decided to eat lunch at the deli it was very good and affordable.
Hot Capicola melt with chips and pickle. Tasted better than picture looks.
This was not much of an aquarium and our first clue was it smelled like a fish market as soon as you open the door. The variety is poor, I’ve been fish stores that were more interesting.
Growing up I remember hearing about these Daredevils going over the falls in a barrel so when we were at the Visitors Center and the opportunity presented itself to go over the falls in a barrel we couldn’t resist.
We also visited the Schoellkopf Power Station 3 Complex located at the Discovery Center. The Power Station was built between 1904 and 1924. In June of 1956 3/4’s of the station was destroyed by rockslides. One employee Richard Draper died in this event.
You enter the station at the top and take an elevator to the bottom of the gorge.
Four tunnels where the water from the generators exited the station.
The view from the bottom of the gorge, to the left you can see part of the Horseshoe Falls.
This is the campground we’ve been staying at for the last week and we have 1 more week here. We have enjoyed our stay here and would recommend this campground to anyone who is in Western New York to see Niagara Falls. Its a nice 40 minute drive through New York’s farm land to Niagara Falls, Lewiston, and about 15 minutes to Lockport where the Erie Canal is. The campground has a little 8 acre lake for catch and release fishing and canoeing, guinea hens running around the campground, many different birds, and at night Fire Flies. Below are some photos of the campgrounds.
Trip planning in the East for us is much different than trip planning in the West. In the West we found it pretty easy to travel from one state to another using the internet to find campgrounds to stay at by what we wanted to see. We didn’t run in to expensive toll roads that were hard to drive around. In the North East there are a lot of toll roads that can get pretty expensive and their not easy to drive around. On this leg of the trip planning for us has been more difficult. We’ve had several full timer’s cross our path that were more than willing to share their trip planning tools with us. It sounds like Allstays app is a tool that most full timers have but is missing from our toolbox, also most seem to have an RV GPS that will plan routes around low bridges and toll roads if you want. The full timers are quick to mention that the RV GPS will put you on a road you don’t want to be on from time to time but they are better than a standard car GPS. We will be adding Allstays to the tools we use to plan our trips, not sure about an RV GPS. The GPS we currently have will route around toll roads but not low bridges.
What we learned;
Full-Timing with Jesus 