We stopped off in Long Lake to do some geocaching, and grab some lunch at the Long Lake Diner (also known as "woods")...
After lunch we drove to, and through, Newcomb, on our way to Tahawus, an old mining town that closed up decades ago...lots of the buildings are still standing today...it was a beautiful day for a drive through this remote part of the Adirondacks, and up into this amazing setting...with tall mountains and intact empty houses standing in the quiet forests...
Ben has been helping me make a movie for a couple of months...mostly sound effects and stuff, but today he told me that he was ready to enter the arena as an actor...so today, he became Timmy the zombie...he was awesome!!!
I'll be coming back down to Tahawus with some friends in April to do some camping and exploring...the state recently bought about 10,000 acres, and Tahawus and beautiful Lake Henderson are right in the heart of it...exploring the woods and waters of the area, especially some of the intact houses up in the woods (which have grown up around the town since it was abandoned) is going to be lots of fun...
We'll be watching scary movies in, or against the wall of, one of the houses...it should be cool...
There is a gorgeous and huge old mansion across the Hudson (which is only yards across at this point in its journey to the ocean), which looks to be in perfect shape, and should be pretty once we get a closer look...
Making movies and exploring ghost towns is hard work, so Ben and Penny took it easy on the drive home...I cranked back both of their seats in the Element, and it made a perfect full-length snuggling bench...
At one point Penny decided to come up and visit me, which required that she crawl across and over Ben...this pleased everyone involved...
We stopped off in Long Lake for a short play and pee time (Ben played and Penny pee'd) at one of the best tiny playgrounds in the known universe...
On the way home, between Long Lake and Tupper Lake, Penny went to sleep on her piece of the bench, and Ben looked at the cool geocaching cards that we got from our friends Shane and Doree in Long Lake...the guy behind us blew by us about 10 seconds after this picture was taken, and was pulled over a minute after that...HA!
It was a great Sunday!
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We have been to long lake but never eaten at the Long Lake Diner. We always pack a lunch and have a picnic by the lake. We went to buttermilk falls for the first time this past fall what a pretty area.
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