We arrived in Woodstock with high hopes of reaching Wilson State Park - a nice campsite in the Catskill Mountains. We made it, and it was nice. However, there was also a population of 7000 black bears who also seem to think it is nice. After pitching the tent we made a few enquiries as to how we should cook and keep our food. Without a vehicle it was impossible to stay there without attracting the attention of all these bears whose sense of smell reaches over a mile! We promptly packed up and the kind park ranger dropped us back off in the hippy village of Woodstock where we booked into a guest house for the night. The same park ranger who assured us that they were not dangerous also admitted that they had recently destroyed a whole garage (the bears not the hippies).
However, we enjoyed our night in Woodstock and in the morning we made use of the local launderette and library to clean our clothes and search out a new campsite somewhere between Woodstock and New York City. We got on our way thanks to a lift from Debbie and Susan who kindly dropped us off at the bus terminal in Kingston so that we could make our way to New Paltz and then Plattekill.
We were lucky with transfers and arrived at a KOA Kampground in Plattekill in time to put the tent up and have a beer! We chilled out by the campsite pool for two days - good preparation for the hustle and bustle of New York City on Friday!
Having great time - be sure to comment and keep in touch.
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Glad to hear you survived the bears, if you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big suprise!
Its Faversham Hop festival this weekend, very fun, saw a band called Syd Arthur last night in the Sun and been wandering around this afternoon, tis a outting!
Keep the updates coming, I need to go a rescue Rebecca, she has passed out on the sofa!
Lots of Love
Han
xxx
I thought you were joking about the bears!!!! Glad you had your sensible heads on.
Looking forward to hearing about the tennis.
Loads of love
Mum xxx
Hi Jen n Joe
Just back from France and good to get up to date with the travels. I too was keen on bears in California many years ago but backed off big time when I found out more! Came thru Fav last night....weird locals with hop hats! wots that all about. Hope you got Boli info. Bex back to Uni tomorrow, so will need a new lodger! All P's in good form. Love to both, Gill x
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