A beautiful weekend for camping

Two weekends ago the weather forcasters were predicting a hot weekend for Friday through Monday (in April!). It's early in the year for camping but we decided to go for it. It was a long hard winter for us and my inability to go anywhere had kept us cooped up. We had to cancel our March camping trip to Florida because of my chemo. We had been looking forward to our first camping trip for months. As the camper had been winterized and everything taken out, Barry had to spend some time getting everything packed inside again. I was too fatigued to help and could contribute only my knowledge of where things are normally stored.

We went to Allegany State Park in New York State. It's one of our favourites and under a two hour drive away, in the hills south of Buffalo. We usually go in the autumn when it is absolutely stunning with all the trees turning colour. We got a campsite right beside a little stream and under the (leafless) trees. There were very few other campers there even though the weather was in the high 70's. We walked around the hilly campground every day and even went for a little walk along the streambed. We sat in our chairs beside the firepit listening to the birds and watching the stream burble its way over the rocks down below.




I had been nervous about going away with my level of fatigue but everything worked out well. Barry did all of the cooking of course and we have a camp chair that is like a recliner for me to rest in. We had the camper for me to lie down in when I got really tired.

All in all it was a terrific break and well worth doing. Good memories to keep me going through the rainy days.