Getting Closer To Home

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Getting Closer To Home

Moving day! Tom got up and headed for the wash house. I rolled over and started making and preparing the bed for moving. This is a sight to see. Well, not really. The bed in the trailer is a double bed (we have a queen size at home) with access to it only at the foot end and on one corner; three feet up the side and about two feet across the bottom. So to make the bed I lie on my side and pull up the sleeping bag on Tom’s side until it reaches the wall at the head of the bed and then roll onto Tom’s side and pull up the sleeping bag on my side of the bed. Then I wiggle down the bed making sure that the sides of the sleeping bag are up the walls about equally on both sides. When I bought these sleeping bags I bought extra large ones so we had enough room to wear an assortment of sweat suits or other things to bed. Soon I’m at the bottom and can get out onto the floor.

With this done I can pack the bed for traveling. Huh!?!? We use the friction of the sleeping bags to keep things from moving around while the trailer is rolling down the highway. (No one is going to tell us about how bad the roads in PA are. Interstate Rt. 86 where Rt. 219 travels the same portion of roadway is a real mess. It has a sign by the edge of the road that says ROUGH ROAD and they mean it. When I opened the trailer door at the campground I found three things on the floor but none of the things that I had packed in or under the sleeping bags. And the rough road stopped right at the state line between NY and PA.) I have yet to find any of those things that I pack in/under the sleeping bags in places that I didn’t put them at the end of a traveling day.

We are back into PA at a campground that has showers smaller than the one in our trailer and internet service if you go to the laundry room. We will be here for two nights and then move to Hills Creek State Park just outside of Wellsboro, PA. Since it is a State Park we will not have any internet service there. We will be moving there on Thursday so you will not hear from us on Thursday night.

A stop at Hills Creek is almost mandatory. It is so close to the Pine Creek Gorge which is known as the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania. We learned last night that this area is past its maximum burst of leaf color, and we saw evidence of that today; lots and lots of bare trees although we did see some color in New York. There was some around the campground where the rising sun shone off the leaves colors before we left. But the gorge is a thing of beauty in any season so we view it from the Leonard Harrison State Park side and the Colton Point side. Different views, same place; both awe inspiring. It’s just a relatively short distance to Hills Creek from here, so that we are confident that we can travel there and get to see the gorge in the same day.

We had a relaxing day and even a nap this afternoon. Tomorrow we get to see Kinzua Bridge State Park and maybe the Allegheny Reservoir.

Talk to you tomorrow; we hope.