We have been visiting family almost continuously for more than 3 weeks and getting back on the road and heading towards home is feeling pretty good but a little bittersweet. My boyhood home in Ludlow is up for sale and this will likely be the last time I am to visit it. We moved into that house in 1953 when I was 9 years old and my parents lived there until my mother passed away last March – almost 60 years.

Our plans are to next visit our friends in Milwaukee on our way to the GMC Western States rally in Springville, Utah on September 23rd. We left Ludlow this morning after my reunion brunch and made it to the Susquehanna Trail RV park in Oneonta, NY. It was a nice day – low 80’s and dry. Tomorrow we plan to go to Watkins Glen Gorge State Park in the finger lakes region of New York. There is hiking and sightseeing there and about 20 miles away there is the Corning Glass factory and museum. We plan to spend a couple of nights there and decompress a little – visiting can be stressful for all concerned.