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It’s Alive!
March 20, 2024 – Day 5 Lums Pond State Park Campground We woke up around quarter past 5 to make sure that we had the coach ready by 6AM. There wasn’t a knock on the door at 6 am so we waited a few minutes. Paul went into the office to ask what the game plan was. Nicole greeted him—they must have caffiene in their veins—and told us that the mechanic who was going to work on our coach wasn’t in yet. Arghh…. Then Paul got to deal with the joy of having his LinkedIn account hacked. Despite having a quality password Paul isn’t sure how they did it. But…
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It’s a Choice
March 19, 2024 – Day 4 Bayshore Ford Truck Center, New Castle, Delaware I’ll bet that section heading got your attention, didn’t it? Heh, you’ll just have to read on. We woke to a beautiful sunrise. The birds were singing, the squirrels were cavorting all over the Jeep. (susan here: ACTUALLY, Snow White was dancing. And birds were singing. And they were all jockeying with each other to land on Snow as she sang to them.) We had risen early so we didn’t have to scramble to make our 9:30AM oil change appointment. Susan had her coffee so all was right in Chez Cezanne. We were all buttoned up by…
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The Not Dogwoods
March 18, 2024 – Day 3 Lums Pond State Park, Bear, Delaware Today was a settling in day. We hung out in the morning. Susan went looking for my mom’s favorite diner, she couldn’t find it. Not on Yelp. Not on Google Maps. So we texted my brother, who called right back. It turns out her favorite diner was demolished a few years. That’s why we couldn’t find it. It’s a shame because it was a great place. We found another one, the Route 40 diner, and headed out for lunch. It wasn’t much to look at outside since it was in a strip mall. However, it was all diner…
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Not the Best Day
March 17, 2024 – Day 2 Cairo, New York to Lums Pond State Park, Bear Delaware We woke up to an empty parking lot and looked forward to an easy 4 1/2 drive to Lums Pond in Bear, Delaware. We’ve stayed there a few times before. We know the roads. We know the campground. It was going to be easy. Paul walked the parking lot exit since it looked like it might be steep or rutted, looking back you can see just how empty the parking lot was. The front of Old Factory Brewery was also charming, especially with the sun rising behind it. That’s probably the last time we’ll…
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Steep Hills, Good Mac & Cheese & Beer
March 16, 2024 – Day 1 Keene NH to Cairo NY – Old Factory Brewery We had originally planned on leaving on Sunday the 17th and making a long days drive to Lums Pond State Park Campground in Bear, DE. We found out we could possibly have an RV tech look at our battery bay, prepping for the upcoming battery upgrade, so we found a Harvest Host in Cairo NY. We could stop by the RV shop on Saturday morning and then make a short drive to just south of Albany. The RV tech didn’t work Saturdays but we liked the idea of leaving on Saturday anyhow, so we just…
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Short Trip Home
November 17, 2023 – Day 49 We both love the banjo player Bela Fleck. We’ve seen him live twice and would gladly see him again if he plays anywhere in a drivable distance from us. Now banjo, you may thinking of Deliverance… But Bela plays differently than that. He teamed up with Edgar Myers and made the wonderful modern bluegrass album Short Trip Home. Stop the presses. Bela Fleck had nothing to do with that album! Both Susan and Paul would have fought you on this but we were wrong. (To be fair, Meyers and Fleck have a long history of collaboration. But it wasn’t this album or that song.…
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Penultimate Day
November 16, 2023 – Day 48 We pulled out of French Creek State Park in Elverson PA to make it halfway home. We’re on the second to last day. The “penultimate” day. Paul had that word as a vocabulary word in High School and has always been amused by it, it is certainly a $20 word when a 50¢ word will do. This is completely unlike his other favorite weird-word, which is “defenestrate.” Paul always wondered why such a word was needed, “To throw out a window” is pretty specific. And Wikipedia comes to the rescue. Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. The…
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It’s a blast, blast, blast.
November 15, 2023 – Day 47 French Creek State Park is located next the Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site. Paul’s brother has visited this in the past and spoke highly of it. After a lazy morning we headed over to visit it and stamp our National Parks Passport book. Hopewell Furnace showcases an early American landscape of industrial operations from 1771-1883, Hopewell and other “iron plantations” laid the foundation for the transformation of the United States into an industrial giant for the time. The park’s 848 acres and historic structures illustrate the business, technology and lifestyle of our growing nation. There were two furnaces there, the newer, anthracite furnace, which…
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Like Watching Paint Dry
November 14, 2023 – Day 47 We pulled out of Claytor Lake State Park, heading towards French Creek State Park in Elverson, PA. We’re both getting pretty tired of driving. It is like watching paint dry sometimes. Notice what the truck is carrying? We’re so funny, right? To be fair, we both were surprised by this, thinking that paint would be transported in cans, but I guess it gets bulk transported also. Or maybe it is a liquid used to make paint? We don’t know but it did strike us as funny. Or, maybe we’re just punch drunk from thousands of miles of pavement. Every city has what every other…
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Just Chilling With the Deer
November 13, 2023 – Day 46 Frankly, we didn’t do much today, just hung out, played radio, Susan cooked up a storm so she wouldn’t have to cook later, and we were both getting tired of sandwiches for lunch. Speaking of Lunch, one thing Paul likes to do is buy the weird drinks he finds. Today’s was Zia Ginger Ale. The bottle promised “Red Chili and Lime,” and well, the lime was there but no red chili taste was found at all. This was almost certainly purchased out west. Oh, we didn’t get a picture of it, but the oddest one was the Cucumber Soda. The four of us had…