Today was a fairly long and eventful day compared to relaxing at the Miller/Lyne resort. But, before we begin, let’s clear something up.

We discovered our campsite and its namesake town and surrounding other place names have has two spellings: Alburgh and Alburg. And although supposedly, Alburgh was the original, and the “h” was supposed to be dropped for consistency, the two spellings remain. But then you look at Pittsburgh and Plattsburgh, which both still have “h”s, so the consistency rule doesn’t pan out in more than one example. The only thing consistent about Alburg(h), is that it is spelled both ways inconsistently. There is Alburgh, East Alburg, South Alburg, Alburgh Dunes and even the Alburg campsite and each can be seen spelled either way in various places.

We noticed the Alburg Recreational Rail Trail was very close to the Alburg(h) RV Resort where we stayed.  We decided to take a short 3.3 mile ebike ride to East Alburg.  At the end of the ride was the local railroad with 115 pound continuous welded rail and a kick-ass backup generator – presumably for signals along the rail.

We left the camp around 10AM for our next stop at Newcomb campground – the last stop before we head to our adventure at Scott’s brother’s Ray’s house in the Adirondacks.  We decided to take the Grand Isle Ferry across Lake Champlain despite the fact that it actually added to our transit time.  We were very lucky to arrive just in time for board the 11AM ferry – and, with the jeep making us the longest vehicle on the boat, we got on first and were put in the front of the boat where we would be the first off.  From the front seats of Khan we felt like we were in the virtual wheelhouse.

After we got off the boat, we looked for someplace to park and eat lunch of leftovers.  We found a gas station just off the interstate for this.

Then on to Ticonderoga for a stop at the Star Trek Tour .  This is a storefront off the main street in Ticonderoga – a town kinda in need of rehabilitation – which the owners recreated from blueprints of the Enterprise set for the original Star Trek series from 1966 to 1969.  For $22, seniors (the great majority of those in our 15 person or so 2:00PM group) get an hour long tour of the set from a kid who channeled a young Wesley Crusher.  He was good, and the set if pretty accurate.  He had lots of inside information on the props and rooms – like the laser scalpels that Dr. McKoy (“bones”) were actually contemporary salt shakers,  and “Jefferies Tubes” were named after one of the set designers.

After all this we made it to our campground around 4:30PM in time for Scott to take a short 1 ½ hour nap, then into the town of Long Lake for dinner.  When our first choice restaurant staff couldn’t be bothered to acknowledge us, we bolted for the nearby “Hops and Hoagies” Deli where we bought hoagies to eat back at the campground.  Then to the Stewart Shops (think New York’s version of Wawa,) for the beer we were asked to bring to Ray’s and some bananas, and back to the campground.

Then dinner, calls to home, blogging, and bed.