Our little quartet is currently obsessed with another little quartet. The kids are mad about the Beatles and so the constant sound track to our road-trip has been Please Please Me, The White Album, Hard Days Night etc etc (with a little bit of Queen and Beach Boys thrown in for good measure). We have been having frequent family debates about which Beatle wrote the best songs and who had the best voice, John, Paul, or George (sorry Ringo). Adam is definitely a McCartney fan whereas Shaz and I prefer the rough edges of Lennon. Whenever a new track comes on and Soph finds out who is singing the lead she says..."I knew it!"...which has had us in stitches.
We left Pittsburgh on Monday after a leisurely breakfast and drove North into New York State where we camped in Allegany State Park at Red House campground. We had planned for some serious bike rides and a canoe trip but Ironically the weather has been very Welsh, with temperatures in the 50s (unheard of for June) and bucketing rain. In fact we could have flown home for a decent pint and some good scouse company and gone camping in Nefyn.
Yesterday we pootled slowly towards the Finger Lakes region of New York. It was a quiet day but it is nice just to be able to hang out together as a family. Shaz and I cooked some fillet steak and sipped some splendid Italian red on the shores of Lake Keuka while the kids had a riotous time messing about on the swings and playing footy. Best restaurant in town!
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As I am sat in my office bathed in electric light - Winter outside - I am growing in jealousy - this surely is payback time!
Yeah except somehow rural USA is not as beautiful as NZ. Coming on this trip reminds we what amazing contrasts exist in the USA. Some of the richest cities in the world surrounded by mile after mile of decaying and run down rural communities. We are in Lake Placid right now in the Adirondacks and it is very touristy but so far the rest of the Park has been pretty grim on the human front.
The bits I've seen, Colorado and Arizona are certainly up there - but NZ is beautiful -so are parts of the UK!
i saw the forecast was a bit grim! Still - it's a great break from routine. Same temps as here!
love Ma
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