After I left Exeter, NH and Eric’s family, I rode east toward the Catskill Mountains. Traffic was slow and I got caught behind several long lines of cars so I cut my way to “Superslab” (Interstate) to make it to the Catskills.

That night in the Catskills, I stayed the Devil’s Tombstone Campground with only one other camper. I was in spot #4

The ranger and his assistant were really, REALLY eerie too. The ranger looked like Christoper Walkin and his assistant behaved like someone out of the movie “Deliverance”.

The camp was beautiful though and I survived the night.

The next morning I looked at possible routes back to Ohio and the direct route looked awefully boring so I decided to head north to Lake Placid, NY in the Adirondack Park.

There, I got to see potential Olympic downhill skiers practice their routines. They were not practicing in the snow obviously but in a pool. I able to get quite close to the athletes to get pictures.

After I watch the skiers perform their routines, I rode to a different part of Lake Placid where I got to ride to the top ski lift where the skiers performed their long jumps during the 1980 Olympic games.

I wandered through the town of Lake Placid and stopped by The Olympic Center but nothing much was going on so I moved on to Watertown, NY where I overnighted.