Ok, I can’t resist the gas station lady’s invitation.  We are going to the Star Trek Museum.  Admittedly, my expectations are pretty low but I just have to see what they have.  I was sooooo wrong.  The place is amazing and everyone involved in it so enthusiastic and filled with series information that one can’t help but get pulled in.   The sets are not original but meticulously recreated versions of those used during the series filming . I get flashbacks from episodes as we walk set to set..a transporter room, the main saucer hall, Bone’s sick bay, Kirk’s quarters, engineering, a turbo-lift, and the bridge.  Take a look at me in the captain’s chair…Kent too!

Our guide reminds us that all the Trekkies have Lucille Ball to thank for Star Trek’s very existence.  She produced and pitched two very expensive pilots convinced the series was right for Desi-Lu Productions.  Her persistence paid off.  Star Trek the series came to be.

Incidentally, we met the guy who owns the place.  He was sitting in the front lobby literally watching paint dry as he was personally rebuilding one of the Enterprise Bridge sets.  Interestingly he also spent some 30 years as an Elvis impersonator.  He still sports the hairdo.  It takes all kinds!

If you have even a passing interest you have to check this place out.

We go for lunch out again today.  We try the Hot Biscuit Diner in Ticonderoga.  It is breakfast all day on Sundays.  Not bad.