Mike and I headed up to upstate NY on Thursday (7/29) for the start of our week long vacation (from work, from NJ, from chemo!) We left Otis with Charlene, Jeremy and Regan (Regan thought he was a gift as she told her mom that "This is from my Linda!" They'll be joining us on Sunday at the house we've rented near Sodus Bay. Of course, after dropping Otis off, I realized that I had forgotten my coumadin, so we had to turn around and drive the 30 minutes back home before heading out (thank goodness Mike loves me!)
Our road trip took us through Clarks Summit, PA -- a town that holds fond memories from the summer I spent working as an intern at P&G in Mehoopany (I was a "diaper engineer"). Most of the full-timers lived in Clarks Summit and commuted the 30 minutes out to Mehoopany and since I spent most weekends hanging with Joe, Josh & Vin, Clarks Summit was like a second home to me. The town has grown quite a bit since then (1998). We stopped for lunch at Waffle House and then decided to take the scenic route from there up to Corning, NY (our destination on day 1).
We headed west on Route 6, a beautiful road that winds along the Susquehanna River. We passed through Tunkahannock (where I actually lived that summer) and then up across the NY-PA border. We made it to Corning around 7pm. It took us several tries to find a hotel room --
- the first hotel was booked for a wedding
- the second was too sketchy to consider
- the third was booked by the "11th Annual Lap of PA" , sponsored by the Corvette Club of Western PA (ummm... don't they know that Corning is in NY... not PA???)
- the fourth had only one room left... a smoking room
- the fifth jacked their prices when they realized everything in town was sold out
- finally... we settled in at the Corning Inn... a bit sketchy, but at least it was a room!
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