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.


Thursday, September 4, 2008

We reached our final planned stop on this wonderful trip on Sept 2. We've come to Syracuse to visit another dear friend...have booked a couple of days at Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona. It's quite a large complex with five golf courses, a huge hotel, a lodge and spa. The RV portion of the resort is about a mile from the the main portion and is pleasant. They've done a very good job of preserving the natural landscape and making the man-made features look quite natural.


One particular thing I love about this mode of travel is the ability to see friends along the way...we threw steaks,vegetables and herbed potatoes on the grill and had a great visit with Dick. We didn't have nearly as good of time at the casino!


The next days we took a nice bike around the resort and booked a golf lesson for Rick. Went over to Turning Stone's signature course, Atunyote,...it's quite imposing, beatifully kept and appointed...however, we found their gates a bit scary!


Rick loves the head pro, Marty, whose come to Turning Stone from the noted Jim McLean Golf School at Doral. He's sure he's fixed his game...we play after Rick's lesson and we both still have a bit of work to do on our games!


The Brazilian resort at the resort, Rodizio, has been touted to us. It's a huge amount of food for a very fair price, but it's not particularly notable. One note, this whole resort is dry (have never seen a casino before that isn't pushing drinks). However, they allow you to bring alcoholic beverages into the restaurants and bring a corkscrew and proper glasses. We have another painful evening in the casino.
Posted by Denise and Rick Cunningham on Thursday, September 04, 2008
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