Road Fogies: a couple of fogies traveling with their poodle

Childhood Memories


Saturday afternoon we arrive at a small RV park near Willington, CT about 20 miles north of Hartford. Arriving a little later in the day than we planned we decided to stay a second night to allow time for a trip into Hartford and Windsor. The campground is very pretty setting on the side of hill with a small lake. We borrowed one of the camp canoes for a paddle around the lake, took the girls on a long walk and relaxed at the campfire for the evening. I though we were going to have hotdogs but discovered they had not traveled well and were uneatable. Making do we folded ham on the forks and roasted those on the fire along with a few marshmallows, We would do better the next night but more on that issue later.


As a child growing up in Canton, OH one of the highlights of the summer was our father’s company picnic at Myers Lake Park. It was always a great day with games, food and best of all free rides all day. I had three favorites: the Bug, kind of like a small roller coaster, the Comet (the big roller coaster) and the Merry-go-round. I did not know it them but the Merry-go-round was built in in New York City about 1914, the horses were hand carved by Solomon Stein and Harry Goldstein, each in an individual design. There are 48 horses arranged in rows of three and two chariots. Some were clad in armor like the horses of the knights of old, some had Indian feathers woven in their manes or a cowboy’s lasso on their saddle, others were circus horses with flowers in their manes but no two were exactly alike. I loved these horses. In the early 1970s Myers Lake park closed, the rides were scraped or sold. The beautiful Merry-go-round was sold to Hartford, CT. On Sunday I got to ride it again. It was a beautiful as my memories. The horses have been restored, the old Wurlitzer band organ was playing, and the horsed went up and down. I loved it.










August 28th, 2014

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Road Fogies: a couple of fogies traveling with their poodle

We are Barbara and Tom, retirees from Ohio. Tom and I met in 1967 in Kent, Ohio where I was a student at Kent State University and he was a student at Akron University. We married in 1969 and together we raise two children, Alisha and Steven. We are now the proud grandparents of Owen, Ben, Nate and Gus. After over 40 years as a Librarian for me and the same for Tom in accounting and a small business owner we decided to retire. We now spend our winters in Florida and try to see our USA during the remainder of the year. To accomplish this we bought a 5th Wheel RV and found Seminole Campground in North Fort Myers, FL. for our winter home. We have combined this with our home in Ohio and traveling our great country. I hope you enjoy reading of our travels.

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