We pulled out of the Walmart in Queensbury around 11:30am on Sunday. Our overnight stay was very quiet and peaceful. This Walmart had more foot traffic than any Walmart I’ve ever been to. There was an apartment complex and condos on the side street and people walked from there to shop. Donna  said she could easily spend a few days there at what she dubbed the Queensbury Walmart Hotel. There were so many shopping opportunities and restaurants within walking distance. Walmart parking lots are just for quick overnights between destinations though.

We had a leisurely drive of about 23 miles to the Lake George Escape campground (map). Lake George Escape is within the Adirondack Park, which basically comprises the entire Adirondack Mountains. It encompasses an area of 6.1 million acres, 52% of which are privately owned. The area is managed by the Adirondack Park Agency and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation under the Adirondack Park Land Use and Development plan. It contains 102 towns and villages. All of the park, both public and private land, is bound to comply with this plan.

Wikipedia file showing the area of Adirondack Park in green

Our route took us through Diamond Point and Bolton Landing, small touristy villages along the western shore of Lake George. Our campground is about five miles northwest of the village of Lake George. We checked in at 12:15 and we were assigned to site 664 – a long, narrow, pull-through site. This is a Thousand Trails and Encore membership park. We aren’t members so we’re paying full price to stay here. We decided to do that so we could spend some time with Donna’s sister Linda and her husband Tommy.

Our long, narrow tree-lined site

Our site is bordered on both sides with trees separating us from our neighbors. The trees also block my satellite antenna. I had reset the satellite dish to hybrid programming which toggles between three satellites and should work in the northeast. I confirmed its operation while we were parked at Walmart and it worked beautifully. But it can’t pick up a signal through trees.

Linda and Tommy’s site next to us

After setting up and relaxing through happy hour, I fired up the Traeger wood pellet fired grill. Donna prepared a whole chicken with a dry rub. I preheated the Traeger to 450 degrees, tied the legs of the chicken and placed it on the grill breast side up. We also had fresh corn on the cob. About 40 minutes into the cooking time for the chicken, I started soaking the corn in water. Twenty minutes later, I put the corn, still in the husk, on the Weber Q gas grill over medium heat. Another 20 minutes and everything was ready to serve. I quartered the chicken into breast-wing white meat quarters and leg-thigh dark meat quarters. The chicken was moist and tasty and the skin was perfectly crispy. Corn on the cob grilled in the husk is another summertime favorite of mine.

Roasted chicken quarter and grilled corn

We enjoyed our dinner at Linda and Tommy’s place and sat outside and talked until the bugs chased us in around 9pm.

Tommy liked the chicken

The temperature is supposed to reach 90 degrees today with a chance of thunder showers later in the day. We have a 50 amp hook-up with good voltage here, so running both air conditioners won’t be a problem. The weather guessers say it’ll cool off with highs in the upper 70s for the rest of the week. That sounds good!

PS – Happy birthday to my middle daughter, Jamie. She turns thirty today.