Connecticut is always fun to visit. Lots of roads that go wandering through the countryside and there are so many trees you can’t see very far. Very different from Idaho.
Nina thinks we may have made our last visit to Hammonassett Beach. I’m not so sure. She would like to do a family history trip where we would stay several weeks in New England. There’s surely time then to carve out a day at the beach.
The rumors are true that you can smell chocolate in the air in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Also, the street lamps all look like Hershey Kisses.
Garmin Jill (our GPS unit) has been quite helpful on this trip. Only once has she lead us astray. But, I’m a bit worried about the route she’s taking us on right now as we make our way to Marion, Ohio to meet up with Nina’s brother Ralph. We did arrive, but we took some roads that are not on our big Rand McNally map.
It is very hard writing this on my iPhone. I actually had this finished and lost everything from #5 onward. So, it’s now Wednesday and we’re at our daughter-in-law’s home in Springfield, Missouri. I’m now on a nice wifi connection and on my laptop.
On Sunday we went to Valley Forge with Daryl and Laura along with Kirk and Dawnmarie and family. That was our second visit to Valley Forge and I finally figured out what is so much different about Valley Forge than the other Revolutionary and Civil War sites. There was no big battle fought at Valley Forge.
Marion, Ohio, in addition to being the birth and death place of President Warren Harding, is also the location of a gravestone marker that mysteriously moves. It’s a two-ton granite sphere on a granite pedestal and rotates around on it’s own. No one knows why.
We’ve spent more time driving in the motor home on this trip than we have visiting people. It’s a long way across country! When we leave Springfield we’ll have about 20 hours of actual driving time ahead of us before we arrive home. I think we’ll split that across three days as we’re both rather tired. However, the objectives of the trip have been met. We were at Kate’s baptism. We went to the beach at Hammonassett, visited with Aunt Jean and Uncle Bob, and saw Peter and Maureen. We spent some time with Daryl and Laura and saw their new house. We spent some time with Nina’s brother Ralph, and now spending some time with our daughter-in-law and granddaughter (Jim and the boys are at Scout Camp). We spent some time with my favorite brother and his wife on the way out and will see them again on the way home. All in all, a successful family-oriented trip.
There is a delightful toy train museum in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. The exhibits are very interesting and quite amazing. However, there is also a Red Caboose Motel next door. There are probably forty cabooses from different rail lines, all outfitted inside as motel rooms. We.Must.Go.Back.
My brain is fried and there is nothing more to come out tonight. ‘Til next week.