after having a great lunch at De Clemente's Deli in downtown Corning. The historic portion of Corning is quite beautiful and very well restored with shops and restaurants (of which De Clemente's is one). The Corning Museum of Glass is very interesting, with displays of glass art, glass artifacts from history, demonstrations of glassmaking and the like, explanations of the roles of glass in history and a most interesting display on the development and evolution of fiber optics. Both of us felt the afternoon was well spent.On Thursday, I played golf again with the same group - with the same results. Enough said! On Friday, we took time off and did chores, went to Wellsboro for dinner and generally relaxed. We found a nice little pub in Wellsboro called "Your Moma's Mug"
that we stopped at for a happy hour drink, then it was off to Timeless Destinations for dinner. 
Great food and good prices - ahhh, life is good!Suz's foot is getting better, but still not good enough to play golf (with a golf shoe that is!). Saturday was the day to ready the coach for the next leg of our journey. We bought some DEF at the local AutoZone store and replenished the tank on the coach. DEF is an additive that is injected into the exhaust system the new generation of diesel engines. It virtually eliminates any pollutants in the exhaust - how I do not know since it is 38% purified urea and the rest distilled water!
On Sunday, Corey Creek held the women's invitational, so I went to Towanda with a group of guys to play golf. The trip was very enjoyable, the company was great - as usual - but the golf was not so good. The greens are very difficult and the pin placements were "challenging" shall we say. the course is quite short, but it is largely up and down the side of a minor mountain! Returning to Corey Creek, Suz and I finished readying the coach and then went to Gregory's for dinner. Good food and reasonable prices, a good combination!
This morning, Jack Alexander came to the coach at 7:30 am to help Suz and I extricate the ourselves from "The Grove." All was ready to go by 8:00 am and the process began. It is a bit more difficult getting out of The Grove than is is getting in. There are lots of trees that have to be avoided, and there is not a lot of room to maneuver the coach to get it back over the bridge across Corey Creek. But after 10 minutes or so of jockeying the coach back and forth, we finally got it lined up and over the bridge, all without adding any scratches from tree limbs or other obstructions! Success!
We then went into Mansfield to fuel up - at a price of $4.01 a gallon for diesel - but that is still better than the $4.19 a gallon that we would have paid in New York state! At 9:00 am we were on our way North and East. The trip was largely uneventful and we arrived at The Villages of Turning Stone RV Resort at 1:00 pm. the resort is nicely located near the Turning Stone Casino (and Rome, NY - home of our friends Virgil and Sue Sestito - today is Sue's birthday by the way). I found the price for the site a bit steep. We got "the weekly special rate" or $45 per night. That is high for what you get. We located our site and got situated,
noting as we did that there were a large number of Canada Geese in the area. After getting set up, we also noticed that they had left myriad "presents" all around our site! Suz and I donned the rubber gloves and picked up what must have been 5 pounds of these "presents." 
Ah, the myriad uses for WalMart plastic bags - I hate Canada Geese!Tonight we plan to go to see the casino and what the surrounding are has to offer. On Wednesday, we will get together with Virgil and Sue. The rest of the week is largely up in the air. Until the next post. Cheers!
John, Suz and Dixie the Wonderdog (who loves to chase geese!)
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