New York

Wednesday 6/12: We traveled a little over 200 miles to Marathon New York. Most of the trip was on I-81 which took us across the Blue Mountain potion of the Appalachians, then thru the Endless Mountain area of North East Pennsylvania. In the coal region we took a detour thru McAdoo, home town to my parents. My fathers parent’s bar is still on Main Street, it is now called Butlers Bar and it looks exactly as I remember it. I haven’t set foot in McAdoo since circa 1975 and I wasn’t sure I would recognize much, but it looks the same. I showed Millie where Tony Midash’s Bank used to sit, Joe Midash’s Plumbing business and home, and of course the Midash Tavern. At the end of town I circled the block and much to my surprise found the house my mother grew up in. 

We are overnight camped in a small campground just off I-81. Everything here is soggy, the owner said today was the first day in a week they haven’t had rain. Some days they got as much as three inches. I asked him about the state fairgrounds in Syracuse and got some disturbing news. We will be parking on grass at the rally and they also have had lots of rain.