"travel days"

I have determined that "Travel days" are interesting and an adventure all by themselves. It takes us about an hour to "break camp" and get on the road. We are getting into a routine of who does what....By then its about 10-11 am. Usually it rains. Today it didn't for some reason. Paul is calm and confident behind the wheel, as usual, and I pretend to be calm, as usual. I have maps, the laptop, and guidebooks on my lap and I am trying to look at the road occasionally too. I have discovered that if I don't watch the road, we could inadvertently travel down one that says "no trucks". We have already discovered that that's not a good idea. You never know WHY they don't want trucks. It may be the road is narrow, or it could be that there are LOW BRIDGES....we didn't learn that the hard way, luckily, (we squeaked under the bridge) but you can bet that unless we are on at least a 2 lane highway, I am mostly watching the road. Today Dozer decided he didn't want to be in the truck. Usually he is good, and meows about once every 30 minutes or so, just so we know he is back there. If the road is bumpy he meows until its smooth again. New York has waaaaay too many bumpy roads... Today, though, he just plain didn't want to be in the truck and meowed for almost 2 hours straight. Eventually we stopped for lunch, he ate his piece of turkey, and then fell asleep when we got back on the road. We drove through the Catskill mountains in NY this morning. We really wanted to find a campground to stay in that had some hiking nearby, or access to a lake. We didn't find either. So we kept driving (we could have stayed at a Walmart, but um, there aren't any in the Catskills). We made one interesting turn. We thought it was one of the "Parking area"s that NY has along the highways so that people can stop and take a breather. they are like circular driveways- you can pull off the road, then just continue forward to get back on. We wanted to take a look at the map together, so we pulled into one to take a break. Well, it turned out we turned a bit early and landed in a small parking lot that had no second exit, and Paul had to make a tight 3-point turn (ok, 14 point turn) with the Everest behind us. That was an adventure all by itself. Soon after that he had to take us through a "roundabout" or rotary. He says that was nervewracking, but he looked calm the whole time, so I don't know. As the day wears on, we really need to find a place to stay, and nothing is popping up on the horizon. I am thumbing through the 2 books we have and watching the road signs. In the end, we found a regular campground outside the state park and just called it a day. The good news is we have Wi-Fi!! I really do miss a fast internet connection, but I really don't want to pay the ridiculous price to get it by satellite.... My biggest disappointment today is that we saw a lot of people having a great time tubing down a river. It would have been a blast if we could have found a nearby campground so we could drop the Everest off and go tubing.......... oh well.... The decision for tomorrow is....do we leave early and try to get to the Berkshires and hike there? or do we try to find a trail to walk here tomorrow and leave later in the day.....?