For those who did not see the Newsletter, Walt Linden provided the following information about the August Rally.

FINGERLAKER RALLY

AUGUST 8-10, 2014

ADVANCE NOTICE

Final details have not been confirmed. Due to time constrants below are some details. A special flyer will be e-mailed in the beginning of July. The price for two people will be under $55 including a complete meal, full breakfast, continental breakfast and an ice cream social or two. We are also planning for a guest speaker.

We will have an area for 24 hour generator use. There is a diner at the cornor of Rt 5/20 and Bronson Hill where we will make dinner arrangements with a room for our group.

This is the weekend of the Avon Corn Festival. We will have lawn games and plenty of room for just sitting around under shade trees to enjoy visiting.

This will be a dry camping weekend. Members may arrive any day or time and stay as long as they wish. We will order pizza for lunch on Sunday for those who wish to stay late .

Please bring your own chairs and tables if you have one. We will have the Fingerlaker tent set up.

June 27th - Rally site investigation

The Linden's and the Roule's promised to do some investigation into potential rally sites.

So, in beautiful 75 degree weather we left Livonia, NY about 9:30 am heading east toward a potentially target rich area - Bristol NY.  There, we visited several possible future sites. Bristol Mountain has lots of potential, but they have never hosted a rally and aren't interested.  Ontario County Park has 26 water/electric sites and are willing to allow reserving the sites right after New Years.  The Bristol fireman's field has lots of potential, but we don't have the phone number, yet.  We visited "Bristol Woodlands Campground". It's close to the top of Bristol Mountain on a dirt road. Not quite suited for a group.

From there, we headed northeast toward Montezuma stopping in Geneva for lunch. In Montezuma, we visited Hajamada Campground who advertized caravan and jamboree friendly. After my "thin skin" was penetrated, we decided this place might not be for us.

So, we headed south down the east side of Cayuga Lake and stopped at Twin Oaks Campground and Marina. It's a beautiful marina, but not set up for rallies.

We decided to visit the Pen-NY Mixer rally at Elmira Airport. Getting there shortly before dinner, we joined them.

With one more stop on our agenda, we headed for Hammondsport and the fireman's field to check out the pavilion. We wanted to use the hall for meetings, but it's being used for a wedding.  The pavilion is easily enclosed with tarps and we can use kerosine headers to heat the place.  They are anxious to have us back.  At $20/night including water, electric (looks like 30 amp this year) and the pavilion, it seems like a good choice for our October rally.  We have booked the place.

From there, we headed back to Livonia, arriving 12 hours and 250 miles from our start.

June Rally Highlights

There were 19 of us who showed up for our June rally at Krull Park in Olcott Beach for a great weekend hosted by Roger and Delores Flick (and Nick). Lots of help was supplied by Gary and Sharon Davignon, and many more.  We were on the edge of Lake Ontario with great views from sun-up to sun-set. There was no extra charge to show up on Thursday, so most did. Nick was

responsible for the weather and he came through.

Olcott Beach has a “street of shops” with unique crafts, art and jewelry.

We had 2 nights of dinner in great local restaurants, and Saturday the Flicks supplied ½ chickens while the rest of us supplied our culinary sides and desserts.  Donna Struble supplied a birthday cake to help celebrate Gene’s 80^th.  Breakfast was highlighted by breakfast pizza, rolls and donuts on Saturday and a continental breakfast Sunday. I would be remiss if I did not mention the part the wind played – it blew over the table storing the coffee and condiments on Saturday. Lost about 75 cups of coffee, much of it on Dorothy Taylor. Fortunately, warm clothing, shoes and lots of ice helped protect her from injury.

Saturday night was highlighted by an RV’ing toys auction hosted by Gene Struble.

Thanks to Roger, Delores, Nick and all their helpers for a great weekend and we hope to return to Olcott soon.

Nicholas' Pictures

Nick (Delores' and Roger's) grandson supplied some pictures from our June rally. Here are a few.

ANY PICTURE CAN BE VIEWED FULL SCREEN BY CLICKING ON IT.

2015 Rally Dates are set

Our dates are set for 2015. Click on the "Future Rallies" Tab above.

Also, remember if you find a site and date that will not work on our scheduled date, just propose it. We can work something out.

Book Exchange

Many folks like to read books. One way to get new material is to bring some of your "old" material.
If many do, we have a "book exchange".
Feel free to bring some books to trade. It's free.

June Rally

Our June rally is all set, we head for Olcott beach on Lake Ontario where Roger, Delores Flick, and Nick are planning a great weekend.  It will be dry camping but that’s one way to keep the cost down.

There are TWO tabs above with more information -

• One has the agenda
• The other has the application.

These are also in the newsletter.

Should you want to print out the agenda of the application from the tab above, here's the trick: 

• "Block" the text to print. To "block", move the cursor to the start of text you want to print. Hold down the "left mouse" key and drag to the end of text you want to print. The chosen text will change background color. Screen should look similar to the above:
• Next, bring up a printer screen by pressing and holding the 'Ctrl' key and pressing 'p'.
• Click on 'Selection' to print just what you 'blocked'.

Now the screen will look similar to the one below:

•  Once you are set, click on "OK" and your selection should print.

Remember, if you don't want to fool around with this procedure, you can print the information from the newsletter.

You can view any image full screen by clicking on it.

May Rally Highlights

We are in Amish Country

Our first rally of the year was hosted Jan and Wes Barager, Mary and Dick Randall, and Barb and Dan Burgmaster.  They

Good Eats!

presented us with 3 beautiful days, 1 night of rain to water our freshly fertilized lawns and some great fun in Elkdale RV Park. 16 campers were present for the weekend.

Enjoying the sun

We welcome new members, Jerry Seiwert and his girl friend, Carol.

Saturday morning was highlighted by pancakes (with corn if you like) and sausage put on by Wes and Janet. During the rest of the day while the rest of us wandered, Jan, Wes and Mary put together an Italian lasagna fit for Caesar. We proved it by devouring it in less than 15 minutes. 

Then, Saturday evening, Mary Randall designed a devious game to get us to divulge our inner most secrets about camping experiences. No prizes – just fun. Sunday, we were presented with donuts and coffee to send us on our way to catch up with the Flicks for the June Rally. Thanks to the Baragers, Randalls and Burgmasters for a great weekend.

Any picture can be viewed full screen by clicking on it.

RV PARKY

We spent the last few days after the May Rally traveling through southern Pennsylvania with some old friends from California. One of their favorite means of locating places to stay while traveling is the website -

http://www.rvparky.com/

If you go to the above link, it immediately locates nearby campgrounds (including state parks), Walmarts, Cracker Barrel, Cabellas, Camping World, rest areas, casinos and more. Clicking on their link to the place enables you to find information about  it - like if it allows over night parking. They claim to show 25,000 places. It's updated by folks like us. For example, it lists 16 places around Geneseo, NY - some we didn't know about.

And ........ It's FREE !

There is an APP for Android and I-Phones, too.

You might want to check it out.

We are putting the link under the "Links to other sites" tab above.