Our visit to the Phoenixville area is winding down. We’re back at the campground after a full day of sightseeing in the area. We’ll leave tomorrow morning bright and early headed southwest into Kentucky expecting to get to Jim’s place in Springfield, Missouri sometime late Thursday afternoon.

We arrived here at the campground about 5:30 p.m. yesterday, set up camp, and then drove into Phoenixville to meet Daryl and go to dinner. He picked a place very close to his apartment and the food was well prepared. We had a very nice visit and arranged to meet him this morning after we picked up a battery charger for Nina’s digital camera battery in Exton, PA. (Daryl had called around to find a place that had the charger). The weather was very nice for sightseeing. Our first stop was Valley Forge where we took the driving tour and spent some time in the Welcome Center. Then we headed northeast to the New Jersey border to the Crayola Crayon Factory and Store. We picked up a number of items in the store but were too late to get on the last factory tour of the day. That’ll have to wait to another visit. After that we stopped at the Pez Museum in Easton (within 100 feet of the Crayon store). There Melissa gave us a lovely tour of the museum and answered several questions about Pez dispensers (did you know they got their start as a “stop smoking” aid?). Then it was back to Phoenixville for Daryl to get his car and lead us to TGI Fridays in Exton for dinner. There we had a very pleasant surprise as Daryl’s friend Laura joined us for dinner. We had a great conversation and Laura is a very pretty, very pleasant, delightful young lady. We’re now ready to call it a night and get up early tomorrow for the very long day of driving. I should be able to post some pictures tomorow.