Sunday and Monday, July 24 and 25. Ate lunch with Will and Colleen at the Buttery, in south Boston, loaded up Will’s bike and hit the road, with no idea where we would sleep. Got as far as Middletown, NY. Boondocked in a Sam’s/Loews parking lot. The only noteworthy encounter was a stop for food in Newburgh, NY. What a sad place: litter, deteriorating homes and buildings, garbage, and of course poverty. Monday we drove to a Harvest Host farm in Perrysville, Ohio – Forbes Farm Market (stopped at Kravitz Deli in Youngstown for lunch, worth remembering, reasonably close to I 84). Larry and Wendy Forbes own a large farm and have a well tended store by the road with lots of food and other merchandise to chose from. Wendy is an award winning master gardener and it shows. The spot for us to park was level, reasonably private and very quiet. It’s a place worth remembering for future trips. We drove home today, Tuesday July 26 to find the sweet potatoes devastated, I assume by rabbits since I see no deer tracks. All the apples are gone, not a single one visible where 3 weeks ago there had been perhaps over 100. Blackberries are nearly gone although at least friends were able to pick and use most of them. On the bright side there are lots of tomatoes and peppers and the watermelons look good.
No more blogging until the next trip, ? Florida in January ?
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