7/22/15 - West Chazy, NY

Jim went back to the Chevy dealer and had the transmission flushed today.  It was rainy and I stayed at the RV park and washed 3 loads of laundry.  After Jim got back we drove into Plattsburgh and went to SUNY (State University of New York).  There is a museum with a large collection of paintings, drawings, woodcuts, and etchings by Rockwell Kent.  His pen and ink drawings for an edition of Moby Dick were partially responsible for this previously obscure work becoming the classic it is today.  Then we went to Livingood’s Restaurant and Brewery in Peru, NY and had a couple of beers.  They were among the best we have had on this trip.  We stopped by Walmart and picked up a few items.  A gentleman in front of us had on a WWII veteran hat.  I asked him where he served in the war.  He said he was in the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach in Normandy.  We told him that we had been there to see the cemetery.  He said he just couldn't go back there.  He also said the German POWs they took were very friendly.  We went back to the Casita to have supper.  After the sun came out we had a beautiful day -- it was in the 70s all day.