Bully for you & Hammondsport, NY

We decided to go to Hammondsport today to check out the village.  It is a quaint town and the downtown area is really neat to visit.  Gerry and Grant got out of the car and walked down the main street and checked out all the shops.  It seems a lot of "junk" we threw away years ago are now antiques and quite valuable. Why is that always the case with stuff we get rid of and the stuff we keep is worthless?

Gerry, Larry Jr and I toured Hammondsport around 1978 and I took a picture of the Train Depot.  I think the train had stopped running by then, but it still looked like a train depot.  Now they have converted it into a police station and city offices.  The depot is right by Lake Keuka which is one of the "finger lakes" in New York.  There are a number of marinas near the depot and a small park.  We also took our oldest grandson Ryan to Bully Hill & Cooperstown back in 1996 on one of his trips with us into this part of the country.

2013 photo

1996 photo

We drove around town looking for some geocaches and found two of them.  It was too busy to check for others since there were muggles around.  Then we drove along the lake shore and were amazed by all the homes built right on the lake.  It really is a popular destination and there were some beautiful homes in the area.

Our primary destination by this time was Bully Hill Winery located just north of Hammondsport along a country road.  We decided to do a little wine tasting and Grant was able to down some grape juice made by the winery.  Real grape juice, not wine.

Grant tasting the grape juice.

Twin matching shirts today almost.

 We tried 5 different wines in this room and didn't find one that we both liked that much.  It was $5 for each of to taste the wines and we kept the glass with their logo on it.  The room to the right of Gerry is another wine tasting area that was $1 a glass (not full), but you could select the wine you wanted.  Gerry tried two more and finally said that was enough.  We bought a couple bottles for later consumption.

They give a short tour of the facilities and it was interesting, but there wasn't anything going on since it wasn't the time for harvesting or bottling the wine.  Bully Hill produces over a million gallons of  wine a year and is available in 30 different states.

After the tour we had dinner on their nice veranda with a view of the lake.  Across the lake were some nice homes and the area was very picturesque.  The food was good, but the prices were quite high for what you got.  A small pizza with 8 small squares was $12.95.  It really was small, but tasty.  If you are ever in the area I would advise you to eat dinner elsewhere.  JMHO

By this time it was getting late and we headed back to the campground via Bath, NY.  There was a rock band playing in the city park and they were loud and animated.  We stopped at an ice cream stand and picked up three small cones.  For a minute we thought we were in Texas where everything is bigger.  Our eyes were opened wide. They were huge and almost too much to eat, but we managed to finish them off.

The campground is full now and there are two family reunions going on along with the regulars who spend the summer here.  It is very crowded to say the least and lots of fires going full blast.  It looks like the place is burning down, but with the a/c on it's not a problem.

We did have an interesting ride to Hammondsport today due to the GPS taking us the fastest way there.  We wound up out in the country on dirt, gravel and asphalt roads that had very steep hills and lots of curves.  I thought for a while that the GPS had malfunctioned, but it brought us to our destination.  I am glad we weren't driving the motorhome or that would have been a mess.

That was it for today.  What did you all do interesting?