Summer Vacation

I've booked my flight for my summer vacation.  I have a hotel reservation.  I was even able to use my Holiday Inn points to save some money.  I'm going to the Adirondack Mountains.  The hiking there is wonderful.  I will likely do very little hiking.  However, I will likely do a lot of sitting in the hotel lobby reading a book, as it is a wonderful hotel and I really like their lobby.

To fly from Dallas to the Adirondacks you do not get a direct flight.  The best I could do was to fly to Burlington, Vermont.   To do this I must first fly to Houston, then to Chicago, then to Burlington. From there I will need to rent a car, take a ferry across Lake Champlain and then drive on narrow roads to Lake Placid.  By the time I arrive I will need several days to rest.

In Lake Placid there is a great bakery, run by a German fellow, who thinks one of my friends is Mike Myers.  It doesn't get us a discount.  After all, the man is German.  There is also a fairly good steak restaurant.  Other than that, not much.  Oh, there's a movie theater.  I'm certain I'll catch up on the summer block busters.

Vacations confuse me.  I hesitate to leave my house, for which I have paid a pile of money, to stay in a room in another city, at great expense, where my stuff is not located.  However, this will be a week for me to catch up with some old friends.  Without a doubt we will get on each others nerves.  

It will be great.