CATS GETTING INTO TROUBLE.
Day 231 – Brrr….36 degrees this morning, cloudy. We did find another way to get home rather than taking I-80 east. Since we’d done that route in September, we wanted some new scenery to help with the monotony of the longer drives. An hour shorter & some of it new territory for us & also definitely more scenic, we took I-90 northeast near the Great Lakes for the remainder of Ohio, into Pennsylvania, then we got on I-86 near the New York border just beyond Erie, PA. Interstate 86 goes southeast through that portion of upstate NY which runs above the state of Pennsylvania. It’s called the Southern Tier Expressway. It goes thru Corning, Jamestown, and at Horseheads & Elmira, it becomes NY Route 17. (We’d been to Corning once several years ago when we went to the Corning Museum of Glass while checking out Ithaca, the Finger Lakes, and Cornell University.) Anyway, that stretch in NY, from Erie, PA to Route 17, was new to us. Although the leaves were not on the trees yet, it was a beautiful drive, running along several different rivers, through the Allegheny Hills & Forest, by farmlands, colorful small towns, and across Lake Chautauqua. Fall must be unbelievable here!
253 miles (5:00)
Geneva State Park Campground, 4499 Padanarum Road, Geneva, OH 44041, (440) 466-8400 or (440) 466-5069, http://parks.ohiodnr.gov/geneva. Check-in 3 p.m.; check-out 1 p.m. We last stayed here in September 2017. Most, if not all, the campground was open then. This time most of the campground was closed. Only sites 1 thru 37 were open & self check-in was in effect. We chose site #25 with electric hook-ups. We didn’t need the dump or water so it worked out fine. Even though it was a Saturday night, there were very few campers. The campground is close to Lake Erie, wine country, and the lovely town of Geneva. $29 for one night. We’d stay here again.
We departed Geneva at 10:35 a.m., 40 degrees & cloudy. The kitties were like, oh no, not another long drive, please; but they were good about it when we put them in the bedroom & shut the door. They don’t realize that soon they’ll be home with a large house to run around in.
As mentioned above, we had a nice, scenic drive, passing from OH to PA to NY. We stopped for gas (it takes awhile to fill the RV tank when it gets low), and lunch at a rest stop.
We arrived at Ferenbaugh Campground on Route 414, about 10 minutes northwest of Corning, at 3:35 p.m. It was cold out & windy, 44 degrees, partly cloudy. The campground host said they had fairly heavy snow this morning, and that they usually open the campground mid-April but because of the much-colder-than-normal temperatures this year, their water kept freezing, and they were getting a late start. We were assigned site #141, a pull-through campsite right on a pretty creek. We have electric & water hook-ups; there is a dump station at the campground.
We unpacked & settled in. Within minutes of our arrival, the girls were rolling around happily on the dashboard of the RV. They were happy to be here. It wasn’t long before they assumed their normal positions & went to sleep.
Last night the cats were acting up, running around like maniacs, getting into things, just being pills in general. Even though they do get breaks when we take a break from driving, it seems that being in the bedroom for hours at a time gets to them after a certain point. We have a camera (a kitty cam) & look in on them (spy on them, really) while we’re driving. And most of the time, they just sleep. But we are seeing some signs of insanity, or just plain being ornery behavior lately. Maybe we should get them a treadmill?
This afternoon, after their little naps on the dashboard, we heard this scratch, scratch, thump, thump noise. Oh dear, what are they into now?! (I believe I mentioned yesterday that one of our slides isn’t working so we are leaving it in. This creates a space of about 4 inches between the roof of the slide and the ceiling of the RV. Normally this space doesn’t exist when we’re occupying the RV because the slide is outside.) It did not take long for the girls to discover this impossible-for-human-beings-to-reach space.
If you know our cats, you know that it was Pixie who first dared to squeeze herself up there. The other cats were in awe. “How did you fit in there, Pixie? We didn’t know you could do that!” (She had to drag herself along. We were more concerned about how she was going to get herself down and/or how WE were going to get her down from there.) Of course, out comes the camera. LOL. Pixie got herself down fine, then Gracie & Luna had to try it, and they lined up on the counter to take their turns. Java is rather large; we sincerely hope she continues to show no interest in working hard enough to get up there. She would get stuck.
It is now 7:40 p.m. The girls have settled down FOR NOW. We are dealing with the power going out every time we try to use something. Methinks it’s time to go home, LOL. End of Week 33, Trip #3.