9/16/08 A lazy day through the Catskills Mountains, N.Y.

9/16/08 A lazy day through the Catskills Mountains, N.Y.
The KOA in Saugerties New York was quiet; so quiet that we slept until 11:00 this morning. I guess we were more tired than we thought we were. On hindsight, maybe we should have stayed there for another day to rest up. Out of determination we were on the road by noon, which was the check-out time.

On down Highway 212 to Woodstock, N.Y. we went looking forward to seeing where that big concert/festival/craziness in 1969. However when we got to Woodstock it was a laid back town with no open areas. We did see several shops that had tie-dyed shirts and peace signs, but nothing about the 1969 event. Only later did we discover that the actual event was much farther south, actually outside of the Catskills, closer to the Pennsylvania state line. The highways didn’t got through the Catskills so we journeyed the back roads and saw the early fall covering of changing colors across the mountains. Up and over mountains about 4,000 feet seemed like we were just going up and down some of the low hills at home. No rocky peaks. Nothing above the tree line where you could see all around us. Nope, just hills of dense trees with homes along the roads. So 100 miles later we are in Monticello, N.Y. Not the Monticello, just a little town along Hwy 28. So we are camped tonight in the parking lot of Wal-Mart. Not much here, but we will go looking for more what there is here as we head south and west.