This year's family vacation fell to my family. While vacations with Matt's family are peaceful and uneventful, the same cannot be said of going on vacation with mine. Benson Adventures are the norm for us. We've camped through hurricane landfalls, found the literal end of the highway and visited many emergency rooms across the country. One thing that always happens on vacation with my family (actually my parents, since this doesn't happen to my siblings or I on vacations without my parents!) - rain. Not just a little rain, but often raining more than half of the vacation. We've been to places in the midst of droughts. People praying for rain. We show up for vacation and it rains and rains. We leave and their drought conditions return. My parents should sell their services!
Despite the threat of rain, we headed off to the Benson Adirondack Adventure (or BAA)! The drive out was disarmingly uneventful, including the expected rain. Our four little ones rode happily and uncomplaining the whole way. The mountains beautiful, the road wending its way between them, awed our children who had only ever seen hills.
Our GPS, set for the fastest route, provided some amusement as it directed us off the main road at one point and onto ever decreasing sizes of roads. When we hit a one lane road, we joked that the next road would be a deer path. After a few miles though, we turned onto a new main road and continued on our merry way.
We arrived and settled in, the rented “lodge” a little more worn than the pictures on the website. Everyone else loved it. Not so much myself, my gross meter went off due to the fact that the air freshener used in the “lodge” was the same scent the hospital uses to mask unpleasant smells.
The real adventures started the next day.
