Buffalo, NY - June 10, 2013

I consider this my first day of retirement since this is the first day I would have had to go to work otherwise.  I woke up at 4:30 this morning raring to go – Greg told me to go back to sleep we weren’t going anywhere at 4:30 in the morning.

We headed out in the rain and it rained the entire day, so I managed to get caught up on my blog entries.  This is the view from my office window now. 

 

 

 

Going through Pennsylvania and New York on I-90 we noticed nothing but grape vines

 

growing in all the fields.  We saw one kind of puny looking corn field, but that was it.  I tried to snap some pictures from the RV but raindrops obscured the view.  If the day had been better, stopping at a winery or two might have been nice.  We’ll make a note for future reference that the New York wine country looks pretty interesting.

We stopped to make lunch at a rest stop—barbeque pulled pork sandwich and macaroni salad got us fueled up for the rest of the trip.  Speaking of fuel, our fuel mileage is doing pretty good considering we are fully loaded and have a full tank of water on board.  We are getting 7.8 to 8.0 miles per gallon.

This is getting ready to go over the Grand Island, NY bridge

We’ve stopped for the evening at Seneca Casino in Buffalo, NY taking advantage of their overnight parking.  We had a bit of a scare coming in, the GPS routed so that we had a 12’ overpass to go under, we thought we were just a bit over that, but we made it.  We are finding another way out.

We did splurge on the casino buffet this evening, it was pretty good, but I always end up thinking I could have made something better at home.  I do, however, highly recommend the chocolate/peanut butter tort.  We went to the casino with $40 and came back with $41.75, I call that a successful evening of betting.  We can even afford to go back tomorrow.  Greg was ahead by about $40 at one point but you know how it is, you can’t take it with you.

Greg is working on getting our TV system set up.  Since we aren’t in the campground with our dish on a tripod some adjustments have to be made.  Good thing he knows what he’s doing, I’m no help on that kind of stuff.  The TV just came on so he must have been successful.  We’ll be going to Niagara Falls tomorrow.  The weather is supposed to be better.