Last weekend the boys and I bid farewell to Dave in Harrisburg headed up to the Stratton, Vermont area for some camping with my dear friend (and former college roommate) Megan and her son Aidan. Some mother/son bonding time was had by all 🙂 We had a great time catching up — we last saw … Read more
We had an invitation up to visit a famous (in N-scale model railroading circles) basement model railroad in Lewistown, PA, while we were in Hershey for the N-Scale Convention. I asked if we could “swing by” Penn State at least for lunch and some souvenir shopping. Lewistown is about 1/2 hour southeast of Penn State. … Read more
The route we planned from Florida to Pennsylvania took us right across some of the destruction paths from this past spring’s Tornado “Superoutbreak” of April 25-28. On this trip I crossed three of this past spring’s tornado paths, each are discussed below. While part of me as a “weather weenie” finds a fascination in getting to … Read more
I’ve never done a “Wordless Wednesday” before, but I thought we’d have a good time with these pictures Dave and I took of Amtrak’s 40th Anniversary exhibit train at the Strasburg Railroad in June, pulled by a P40 locomotive. Considering these to decorate Jacob’s room, since he’s a fan of Amtrak.
We had our truck about 14 months before learning about the “Average Fuel” setting that ties to the trip odometer. Yep…that’s the total number of miles driven on our two-week road trip in the lower right. And, as an added bonus, we have the average mileage. That’ll come in handy for some additional calculations. Let’s … Read more
We learned this already on our drive to Orlando last weekend. Navarre, Florida to Orlando is about 6 hours worth of driving. We were able to get from Raleigh, NC to Washington, D.C. in less time. But when we started doing our driving planning for our annual June trip to central PA for Dave’s family … Read more
I found this flyer that was handed to me when I turned on the Disney World Tickets last Thursday. I remember stuffing it into our backpack as soon as I got it, and while cleaning out the backpack yesterday I found it. This is the no-kidding real fine print about the extension to the Disney … Read more
**I’m reminded of all those Disney reprise movies: Return to Neverland, Return from Witch Mountain, Return to Halloweentown, Return to Snowy River, etc. Semi-impulsively, this past weekend we took a “short” trip down to Disneyworld and joined our friends Suzy and Andy’s family, and along with their neighbor’s family. They flew down from Ohio for … Read more
In the shade of our garage, we were able to load the car in relative comfort…OUT of the 90+ degrees at 9am! Not only is our summer full of travel, but we couldn’t even wait for school to end before taking our first trip! Since we’re taking the SUV up to PA/WV/VT next week, we’re … Read more
A small British grocery store opened up right up the street, called The British Pedlar. The ladies who are running the store are very kind and they have just about everything that I remember from my childhood, when my mom would frequent the British grocery store in Virginia Beach OR she’d bring things back from … Read more