Vacation at Lake George NY

Update June 9 to June 10, 2019 

-- Drove to the Sagamore Hotel on Lake George to Start New York Vacation 

Lunch at the Sagamore

We like to take a week's vacation every month now that I'm fully retired and Patti's on a short week schedule. We can put together a week to ten days every month to take trips and enjoy our time together.

We often put a golf game or two into the mix so that Patti can continue to expand her logo-ball collection from all the golf courses that she has visited. On our first day of arrival at Lake George, we checked in to the Sagamore Resort (the restaurant, not the hotel). 

For overnight accommodations, we checked into the Holiday Inn Express up the road, which runs about $200 a night less than the Sagamore. Do the math. 
We like to stay at the Opal properties around the country. Some we have stayed at include Lake Placid Lodge, The Samoset Resort, the Harborside Hotel, and others. On our next visit, we may actually check in here. 

The Sagamore Resort at Bolton Landing

Anyway, we enjoyed our lunch at the Bella Vita Restaurant on the veranda overlooking the water and the grounds. We had the shrimp Portofino and a chicken sandwich with some wine. The tax on food was 7 percent and the tax on booze was 7 percent. That's New York. The Sagamore has its own boat which guests can sail on for brief guided tours of the lake. We chose to use one of the commercial steamboat lines to take an extended trip around the lake. The tour included an encounter with dolphins which like to follow the boat and give chase.

Holy Shit; he's wearing shorts.

-- Golf at the Hiland Park Country Club

This golf course was beautiful and a lot of fun. It's actually in Queensbury NY, which is where our hotel was and only minutes to the lake. It was so much fun, in fact, that at the end of our round we immediately booked to come back later in the week for another round. We also liked the looks of the restaurant and planned to visit it on our next round. It turned out to be a very hot week for this time of year and so I had to break down and wear shorts most of the time. I know I didn't give my readers a lot of warning to prepare for this, but I do wear shorts on occasion.

On our second visit later in the week, we did eat at the Grill Room. We shared a Grilled Chicken Pesto Wrap, which was very large and certainly was enough for both of us. 

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READING UPDATE:

Mr. Lincoln’s Navy, by Richard S. West, Jr.

I have been to Gettysburg more than once. I have walked on the battlegrounds of the American Revolution and the Civil War many times. I have read about the great generals, great battles, great armaments that describe the story of how the wars were prosecuted, won, and lost. But, Richard West, in this book, brings out the mighty factor that the Union Navy was a truly significant player in the outcome of the Civil War.

Blockades, control of waterways like the Mississippi, the protection of commercial shipping were all part of the challenges that Lincoln faced in winning the war. The Navy went from 23 ships to 640 ships by the end of the war. Without this growth, the war may have been lost.