Country Hills Campground in Marathon, New York

Country Hills Campground

is located in the rollling

hills of the Southern Tier.

The campground offers a quiet place to relax and recharge from a busy life.  But alas, the necessities of camping life must be taken care of.

Fill your Propane Tanks.

Leave trash in the trailer.

The Maintenance Building

And the other necessity.....

The Dump Station

Some sites don't have

sewer hookups.

Comfortable seating
around the fire pit

New York State Escapees Chapter

 41& Mid Atlantic Chapter 20 are

meeting here for a Rally.

The pavilion is available all
weekend long for Friendship
Hours, Dining, Games &
Chapter 41's biannual
meeting.

A heavily burled tree

stands nearby.

I took lots of photos

of this beautiful tree.

Country Hills Campground is built around the campground's lake.

Canada Geese supervise

their Chicks.

Fishing here is 

Catch & Release.

The Playground includes a
Seesaw, Animals on Springs,
a Farm Tractor with Trailer,
aTruck with Trailer to
climb on & a Swing Set.

One of the Campground's

Bathrooms

Eric & I are parked in a pull

through campsite with full

hookups: water, electric &

sewer.

I like the plastic topped 

picnic table.

As you can see our DirecTV Satellite dish is up...  We have TV reception in this open area.  Eric and I are using our Verizon Data Plan to connect to the internet.  

Eric & I Drive West to Marathon, New York

Today's drive starts off

on Interstate 88 West.

The Schoharie Valley 
stretches out before
us.

 

Workers are patching

the 35+ year old road.

Construction of the section of Interstate 88 that connects the Capital District to Oneonta began in the early 1980s.  I remember reading about the project in Daily Gazette during that time.

These flowering trees are a
bright spot on a cloudy day.

There goes the neighborhood....

Knee high grass is being

mowed in the median. 

I always get a picture of

the "Frankentree."

Eric leaves I 88 at Exit 8
to turn onto New York
State Route 206.

As we enter the roundabout,

I see "a Frankentree" in

the distance.

I wonder.... A quick internet search produced an article on what is described as "Monopinne Trees."  Four were built in the Southern Tier Region of New York.

I spot Jerry's Inn as 

we drive through

Bainbridge.

Route 206 is a lovely drive,

with valleys opening up

before us.

We are in farm country.

We are driving on lightly

traveled roads.

Eric points out parking in the
middle of the Town of Greene.






His years of work at New York State Department of Transportation show as Eric explains that this parking configuration is less safe for pedestrians than having parking on each side of the street.

Construction work near

the bridge in Whitney

Point

I am happy to wait for the flagman so I watch the work zone.

We watch this Excavator

climb out of the depression

its been working in.

We turn on to US Route 11

North/New York Route 79

West for a few miles...

....before turning onto
Interstate 81 North.

Rest Stops on this stretch

of I 81 are not directly

opposite each other.

Exit 9 takes us to
New York State
Route 221 West
& Marathon.

Binghamton is just

25 miles away.

We turn onto a
gravel road...

... & arrive at Country Hills

Campground.

Lunch @ Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in Schenectady, New York

Today Eric & I
are eating lunch
at Popeyes
Louisiana 
Kitchen.

This is the 36th

Fast Food

Restaurant we

visited on the

QSR Top 50

Fast Food

Restaurants

By Sales List.

Popeye's is ready
to feed their
lunchtime
diners.

Louisiana style

cooking is at the

 heart of Popeyes

 recipes.

I like the logo painted

on corner walls.

Buttermilk Biscuits are

rich & buttery, yet

light & fluffy.

Most people are getting
Take Out, allowing me
to get pictures inside
this small restaurant.

Our shared lunch is

Two Pieces of Fried

Chicken, Jambalaya

 & one Chicken

Breast with

a very large soda.

Eric and I like the Fried Chicken very much.  The Jambalaya is average.  I want to return to try the Buttermilk Biscuits.  Fourteen Fast Food Restaurants left to visit...