I just returned from a 3 week camping (?!?) trip in New England and upstate New York. My sister and I were doing geneological research on our father's family and did not find anything new, but at least saw the places where they had lived in Boston, Connecticut, Vermont and the Finger Lakes area before migrating to Michigan in 1837.
We had weird weather most of the trip. It was either cold and raining or unbelievably hot. We stayed with a nephew and his wife in Boston and the temperature was in the high 90s and they did not have air conditioning.
In Brattlesboro, Vermont it was 101 with high humidity. We got to our campsite, layed out the tent and then decided to heck with this and packed back up and went to a motel with air conditioning and a pool!
We made a side trip to Quebec and the weather there was perfect for camping and sight seeing, but as soon as we went into the Adirondacks the rain and cold started again, so after 3 rather wet nights at Buck Pond we went on to Lake Cananadiagua and stayed in a motel for the rest of the trip.
I am 68 and my sister (who just retired from a job in Washington DC and lives in Virginia) is 65 and has had a hip replacement and we were not at all sure we were still capable of camping, but except for no longer having patience for ghastly weather we did pretty well.
When we were younger, even 10 years younger, we often went backpacking, sailing, white water rafting and cross country skiing, but time and gravity have certainly slowed us down!
