Here at #lakeplacidADK I had invented my own perfect day by being Hale , happy and hearty !!! The word “vacation,” was invented in the Adirondacks. In the early 1900’s people in the cities were beginning to realize that summer heat and deadly fevers went hand in hand. The upper class did not spend the summer in the city waiting for a fever; they vacated the city for the fresh clean air of the Adirondacks. The term “vacating” or evacuating is the reason Americans take “vacations” instead of a British “holiday.” Lake Placid is about 5 hour drive from #newyork and I am on a vacation here