Wednesday June 6th 2007. Lake Placid, New York.

Robert Louis Stevenson spent the winter of 1887/1888 in Saranac Lake, New York. Some communities make the most of their history, no matter how tenuous the link and Stevenson in reality spent a very short period here.

That said the Scottish author did compose the twelve essays of the Charles Scribner series; The Master of Ballantrae and The Wrong Box whilst in Saranac.

It was to Saranac Lake that the author came from his home, in one of my former home towns, Bournemouth, England; enroute to the South Seas.

I have completed the journey the other way round and now from the South Seas I too make my stop at this humble home that was the New York resting place for a master literary craftsman.

Then its back on the road to Randolph via the Brick House Café in Brewerton.