Drive to Watkins Glen on September 27, 2017

Mary Anne and I headed east towards Watkins Glen early this morning. We went on the thruway most of the way.

We turned off of 5 and 20 and drove down the east side of Seneca Lake. 

We stopped at Sampson State Park and located a picnic table and had lunch and found a spot with a beautiful view of the lake. We also went to a museum that we had not even heard about.  SAMPSON MEMORIAL MUSEUM.  This complex of military museums was created by members of the Sampson WWII Veterans organization and was a military base. The Sampson Naval Training Station and Sampson Air Force Base were temporary homes to over 400,000 U.S. servicemen during the 1940s and 1950s. The adjacent former Seneca Army Depot occupied 10,587 acres between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes. It was used as a munitions storage and disposal facility by the U. S. Army from 1941 until the 1990s.  

It is a great museum and we enjoyed it.  It was nice to be able to have something to do inside with air conditioning.

We located the old Willard Psychiatric Facility

and the cemetery.  It was too hot to explore the cemetery.  I found the geocache in the parking area right across from the entrance to the cemetery.  We also found one in front of a boy scout camp.

It was still early and I had plenty of cache info. but it was simply TOO HOT to do any more, so we headed to our lodging at the Seneca Lodge.

We found our room in the motel satisfactory and rested a bit before going out to supper at NICKEL PIT BBQ.  Our meal was good.

It was raining when we left and just about dusk, so we went back to our room and got settled in for the night.