Drive to 1000 Islands, New York
Saturday, September 8
Dan writes:
We’re heading out today for the first B.A.S.S. Open tournament of the new season, at 1000 Islands, New York, and after that we’re headed to Detroit for the final EverStart tournament of that season. We spent all day yesterday packing for three weeks away from home. Practice for 1000 Islands starts on Monday, and the tournament days are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. We COULD come back home after that, before the Detroit EverStart event, but 1000 Islands is halfway between home and Detroit, it would involve an extra 800 miles and two days of driving, and we’d be home for only two or three days at the most. We think therefore that we’re just going to head on out towards Detroit when this 1000 Islands event is over instead of coming home.
After a 450 mile drive today, we pulled in to Grass Point State Park in Clayton, New York at 5pm and set up camp on a nice, flat site. The temperature was 88 degrees – very unusual for this time of year, as we could easily see temps below freezing before the end of the week here. Coming out through western Massachusetts this morning we passed a number of areas up in the hills where the swamp maples were already quite red. Fall is right around the corner.