On The High Road: Tubing on the Schroon River

Denise and Rick Cunningham

Like many boomers we're planning the "next chapter". We live a fairly chaotic life in Georgetown in Washington DC. I'm a former fashion executive and journalist. Rick's an engineer and computer scientist. We're about ready for a little change of pace. Travel... perhaps moving to warmer climes ...and definitely savoring more moments. We never set out to buy an RV...matter of fact, we had never even been in one and I definitely don't camp. But, now, with more time and a growing aversion to the insults of air travel, we bought a 40' motor coach. Our grandson, Ian, named it Gigantor. We call it Tor for short.

We're seeing things you just can't from the air and finding that we've so much to discover on this continent. In the past two years, we've taken three marvelous six-week trips. This time, we're "chasing the sun for as long as it fun". We left on October 5, 2009. We'll see how long we last!

We're searching for great places to stay, sights worth seeing, golf courses worth playing, great restaurants, shopping, farmer's markets. We're on the road in search of the high road.

Monday, September 1, 2008

Tubing on the Schroon River

Tubing is on the agenda today. It's Labor Day and the entire place is clearing out. It's blissfully quiet. Ride our bikes around the property and some of the views from the tent sites and 2-way hook-ups are gorgeous. Stare at the

river while I pre-cook baby back ribs in the oven to be finished on the grill later.

We rent the tubes, tie them to the car and drive upstream a couple of miles. After much tooing and froing alot, we get launched in the cool, but refreshing, water. It's a hoot! The river is low and doesn't move fast enough t

o be exhilarating or scary...but it's great fun. We invent a new Olympic sport of syncro tubing!

The trip takes a litle over an hour...we hit one tiny, tiny, tiny little bit of white water and get appropriately soaked.

We spot Gigantor ahead on the bank and work our way over to that side of the river and climb out. A resort worker then takes you back to your car to bring it home.

Rick has been trying to get out fishing...a new hobby which he took very seriously last winter in The Keys. I settle in to read a book while staring at the river and Rick plants his chair in the water.