20/09: Pennsylvania Trip
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
We met Jim and Esther in Texas at the same RV park where we met John and Carol. Jim and Esther full time in their motor home spending most of the summer in Pennsylvania not far from where they use to live. John, Carol and Caity (from Michigan) along with Ed, Zaph and myself decided to drive to Pennsylvania and visit Jim and Esther. As we were only going for a few days we opted to not take the trailers. Jim checked with the campground where they were staying and believe it or not the campground had a few park models that they rent to people with pets. As Jim is a member of the park he was able to get us the trailer for about half of the advertised nightly rate. Thank you Jim.
The drive to Pennsylvania was mostly uneventful. Ed plugged the address of the RV park into the GPS and it did a great job getting us to about 5 miles of the park. We turned at the indicated road only to be met by a rather large STOP sign indicating that the road was not a public road and the area was Scout Reserve. Luckily, I had my computer in the backseat of the truck, so after a couple of minutes I was looking at the mapping program I use. This program indicated that the road we wanted was a couple of miles up the road. Off we drove. Hmmm.... that road didn't exist. While I had been wasting my time looking at maps, Ed talked to a ranger that said the road had been closed for 65 years and gave Ed directions. Thank you Mr. Ranger --- those directions worked.
Our home sweet home for three nights. It was a little run down, but that was to be expected as it was pet friendly. The trailer could sleep 8 --- 2 in a double bed in the back bedroom, 2 in bunk beds in the hall, 2 in bunk beds in a very tiny room and 2 on a futon in the living room. John and Carol opted for the room with the 2 bunk beds as they said it did not have enough floor space for Zaph to sleep. We got the room with the double bed. The only furniture in the room was the bed leaving lots of floor space for Zaph and our stuff.
There was a flea market near by, so we decided to check it out. From the left --- Zaph, me, Caity, Carol, Ether, Jim and John.
Esther cooked us a wonderful Pennsylvania Dutch meal for supper. Jim decided that Cait could help clean up by licking the wine bottle.
The drive to Pennsylvania was mostly uneventful. Ed plugged the address of the RV park into the GPS and it did a great job getting us to about 5 miles of the park. We turned at the indicated road only to be met by a rather large STOP sign indicating that the road was not a public road and the area was Scout Reserve. Luckily, I had my computer in the backseat of the truck, so after a couple of minutes I was looking at the mapping program I use. This program indicated that the road we wanted was a couple of miles up the road. Off we drove. Hmmm.... that road didn't exist. While I had been wasting my time looking at maps, Ed talked to a ranger that said the road had been closed for 65 years and gave Ed directions. Thank you Mr. Ranger --- those directions worked.
Our home sweet home for three nights. It was a little run down, but that was to be expected as it was pet friendly. The trailer could sleep 8 --- 2 in a double bed in the back bedroom, 2 in bunk beds in the hall, 2 in bunk beds in a very tiny room and 2 on a futon in the living room. John and Carol opted for the room with the 2 bunk beds as they said it did not have enough floor space for Zaph to sleep. We got the room with the double bed. The only furniture in the room was the bed leaving lots of floor space for Zaph and our stuff.
There was a flea market near by, so we decided to check it out. From the left --- Zaph, me, Caity, Carol, Ether, Jim and John.
Esther cooked us a wonderful Pennsylvania Dutch meal for supper. Jim decided that Cait could help clean up by licking the wine bottle.