Winter mini-vacation

Cabin fever was setting in and there wasn't anything we could do at the house site, so I booked a few nights at McCormick's Creek State Park. When we loaded the car and started out the driveway we got about twenty feet before getting stuck in deep snow. I started to dig out but it was going very slowly when the neighbor across the road came home from work, started up his tractor and plowed us out. What a guy! He'd already spent the whole day at his job plowing parking lots.

There are miles of trails at McCormick's Creek and the roads in the park were in better shape than those outside. The arrived we decided to hike one of the trails and some of the nearly deserted roads.

We weren't the only ones using the plowed roads. Sandy encountered these two not far from the inn. As we walked along they stayed ahead of us until they headed into the woods. When we caught up, I saw this guy who'd been browsing for anything he could eat.





We ventured quite a way along a trail, down a long stairway and to the creek which was beautiful covered by snow and ice. The trail crossed the creek and it wasn't completely frozen so we just crept along the bank until we saw the falls through the ice cycles.


The stay was over before we knew it and we headed home to feed the cat.