Hooray for Harvest Hosts!
Our luck is holding! After two great nights as guests of the Boathouse Beer Garden through Harvest Hosts, we stopped by a campground for a one night stay on Sunday. Last night of the Columbus Day weekend, so they were delighted to charge us $115 dollars for their deluxe site. We were of course delighted to decline, drove a few miles to Pleasant Valley Wine Company, another Harvest Host, and spent the night for free. We got there just in time, meaning closing time. The property was all ours, with no people, cars, RVs in sight. The downside of the Harvest Host program is that they are mostly dry camping sites, but if you intersperse them with sites with plugins it works out just fine. And, did I mention free? Quiet, peaceful, and free, or $115 dollars to be packed in like sardines at the Watkins Glen Corning KOA.
Pleasant Valley Wine company is the first bonded winery in America, with its start in the 1860s. Our next state to visit after New York is Maine, the first US state to go dry...oh why?
