Road Trips and Hike Reports

We headed out from the apartment about 9 am after loading the car up and saying goodbye to the cat.  Our first flight doesn't leave (from Buffalo) until almost 4 pm so we had a lot of time to kill.  Breakfast was a bagel at Bruegger's and then we headed west on US-20.  As planned, we stopped at Como Lake Park , an enormous Erie county park that we visited once before.  It was nice getting a good leg stretcher in with warm dry weather.  We are both wearing jeans today so we're thankful it was just in the 70's when we walked. From Como Lake Park to the airport was only a 20 minute trip and we were picked up by the parking shuttle driver immediately so didn't have any hanging out time.  I forgot to grab my normal driving glasses but my prescription hiking sunglasses should work for driving and I do have my reading glasses with me also.   Getting through check-in, baggage and security was all very fast with no line to speak of.  We ate in the air...

Today we headed out uncertain of what to do with our day.  I'm getting over a chest cold I think I got from somebody at work.  Brian caught what I have and isn't as close to being over it as I think I am.  We don't feel awful but not great either.  After pouring over the saved hikes in Alltrails I decided to look at a road atlas and see if there was any substantial piece of road I could get to that would be new to me.   I identified a triangle from about Pulaski to Verona NY (along NY-13) and then NY-49 along the top of Oneida Lake which I had not marked as having been on and most of it was also designated scenic route.  So that's what we did today. The park in Camden was a surprise discovery.  It's not a place we'd heard of our seen before but it's a really nice deeply forested piece of land right in Camden.  Camden isn't very big or well known but it's a real town not a 1 stop sign nothing. The park is apparently 117 acres so it's not huge ...

The longer we live in one spot, the harder it is to find places to go that we haven't been to before that aren't crazy far from home.  Somehow this place escaped our attention until now but it was a really good find.  The trail network had a lot of junctions and possibilities to extend or shorten the plot we were following from Alltrails.  There was a very small shelter at one point along the trail and we only saw a few people.