2 Miles and 4 Feet from Home: 07/23/15

We we woke up to another cool crisp morning! We had packed the night before because we had read that it was supposed to rain early morning. Luckily it did not and we were able to pack the tent dry. Since we had packed the car already we went out for breakfast. Lyn and I split a pulled pork omelette and it was delicious. Today we would be driving 8 hours to the town of Bethel, NY home to the Museum of the Woodstock event. After reading about it online I really wanted to see it. Anyway with the help of my sister Siri uh I mean Julie we found a campsite about 30 minutes away and headed for that. According to the GPS we should be there about 5:30. Ok not a fun day ahead but at least we had a good cause. Compared to driving out west or across Canada lets just say this driving was not relaxing at all. While there was some beautiful country side there was a lot more traffic and every time we went by a city the traffic increased and sometimes came to a stand still. It was not fun to say the least. We actual did make good time and found ourselves at the campsite around 5:30. We went down a long road and there at the end was a campground that was pretty but a little erie. We had called ahead and the owners said they would not be there and to just find a site and they would catch up with us in the morning. As we drove in we noticed that there were no tents, no kids on the playground and very few people at all. The ones that were there looked like they lived there full time and just stared at us as we drove by. We did not have a good feel so we decided to head to the museum and find better accommodations along the way. You know the blue signs that are along the highway that tell you what hotels and what restaurants you can get to at that exit? Well we noticed that all of the blue signs at almost every exit had the names of the places removed. You could see the faint out line of what use to be there. After 20 minutes we saw a KOA sign and very excitedly took that exit. As we went down the exit we saw a sign that told us that we were also heading to a correctional facility. We went for about 4 miles down the road and never saw a KOA so we decided to go back to the highway and head to the museum again. We called Julie and she told us about another campground that was only 10 minutes from the museum so we put that in our GPS and headed that way. We went down all kind of crazy back roads and came across a big community of what looked like Orthodox Jews. Anyway the community felt very safe so we kept going down road after road and finally ended up at the campsite. This campground was beautiful when we turned in it had freshly cut grass and playgrounds and just looked great over all but again it had zero people. Not a single camper not a single tent. It even had a flag flying but no one was there. By this time we are getting tired but we headed out to go to the museum area and see if we could find a place to stay. We finally found it and it is a huge complex with big fields and even has a huge peace sign carved out on a hill in the field. Anyway we looked around and still no places to stay so we headed back to the highway and trying to find a hotel. After checking out a dumpy best western we decided to head for a KOA outside of NYC that was about an hour away. This was the one that we had planned to go to in a few days anyway. We got there about 8 and luckily they had a place. It was a huge site with trees and oh by the way it came complete with noisy neighbors. I do not mean kids loud baby crying neighbors I mean full on partying till 1 am neighbors. We finally got to sleep about 1 and actually slept pretty well probably from complete exhaustion. Anyway this day is done and we are glad to lay our heads down even if it is to the sound of the party two doors down.