NBNC>SYRNY: June 24,2014

“Dizzy….. I’m so dizzy my head is spinnin’” Remember that song by Tommy Roe in 1969? Tommy Roe is 72 years old now and playing the Las Vegas circuit; and since we arrived on May 27^th we have been playing the Green Lakes/Sylvan Beach campground circuit. 

Hence being “dizzy”! And you may be looking at our mode of travel and saying to yourselves, ‘yah, poor babies’, but when you set up, take down, set up, take down, etc., etc., etc., (read this in Yul Brynner’s authorative voice) it becomes a harried (sans Byrnner’s shaved head) venture.

  In the past 29 days we have our first ten days at Green Lakes on site 115 (our favorite site) then we broke camp and journeyed to Treasure Isle campground in Sylvan Beach to return back to Green Lakes only two days later to site 107; then a mere five days later going back to Treasure Isle and after 72 hours revisiting Green Lakes to site 107 (de ja vu!!!), and now, nine days later we have ‘pitched our tent’ on site 24 at Mayfair campground in Sylvan Beach for thirty days.


Whew! (Wiping brow, putting up feet on picnic table bench!) Wait-do you need some Dramamine? Or perhaps you feel like humming the song, “"Dizzy”.

And here we are near Sylvan Beach, a quiet, humble village on the eastern shore of Oneida Lake, home to less than 1,200 and best known as the filming location for the 1969 movie, The Sterile Cuckoo, that starred Liza Minelli, when she was just twenty years young.  Lots of places to eat and a lake that is about 22 miles long and pretty much in the center of central New York, Sylvan Beach is popular during this region’s brief summer and just as popular when the lake is frozen tundra.

The fish of choice in Central New York is haddock. So, during these past twenty-eight days we have enjoyed a fishery’s worth of haddock, an acre’s worth of French fries, salt potatoes and coleslaw.

We have met with ‘old’ work friends and ‘older’ school friends; we have hosted gatherings at our campfires and done lots of work at Dave’s parent’s home.

We do intend to return to NBNC (at some point) and dust off the furniture before we plan our next excursion. So, stay tuned as we add snippets and oddments to this journey.