Back to Watkin's Glen and the Finger Lakes

For the fourth year in a row we returned to Watkin's Glen, NY  for our last camping trip of the season.  Some years we've found our limit for cold temperatures, but this year we were treated to an amazing Columbus Day weekend. The weather was so nice it was hard to believe that the campground was closing for the season on the following day. Over time we've noticed that each year seems there seems to be a different crowd at this campground. We've camped with vintage race cars during the vintage weekend, a Scotty rally last year, and almost no one this same weekend when it was cold. This year there were a lot of loud guests at the campground. There was a large extended family spread across as many as eight sites, and a group of sports fans who drained their car batteries while various games blasted out their open tailgates. There was still plenty of quite time, and I'm sure we will be back. As usual our vintage trailer stood out as being pretty unique. As for other interesting campers there was a pair of Toyota mini  motorhomes, a super cool Airstream Basecamp that turned out to belong to one of the kids teachers from home, and we got glimpse of another vintage trailer leaving the park on our last day. While in Watkins Glen we hiked the gorge and stopped at couple of wineries along Seneca Lake while we enjoyed the Finger Lakes region that we used to call home. We also spent some time just taking it easy around the campsite, something that we often forget to make time for. Now back home, the Shasta is back in the garage and tucked away for the winter. We didn't make a lot of trips out this year but enjoyed the ease of just going camping now that the trailer is finished enough to just pack some food and clothes and go.