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Beads, Greenbrier, and George Washington
On the way home we stopped for the night at Greenbrier State Park so Beth could visit a bead store with things she can’t find in Durham. Beth enjoyed seeing the beads in person at the Hagerstown headquarters of the Potomac Bead Company. We parked in the main parking lot downtown and wouldn’t recommend it. There was an altercation amongst…
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Gettysburg
Gettysburg is close to Hershey, so we decided to spend a couple of days there on the way home. The battlefield is a National Park now and contains over 1,300 monuments to the people that fought on both sides in this turning-point in the civil war. It was a somber place that pays tribute to the soldiers and…
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Hershey Rally & RV Show
We drove to Pennsylvania to meet 45 other Pleasure-Way camping van owners at Hersheypark Campground. Over 100 people gathered to exchange ideas and see the RV show at the nearby Hershey convention center. Hershey is still the home of the Hershey chocolate factory. The measurement station at the bus stop made me chuckle. We looked…
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PA back Home
We broke camp early and headed over to the dump station to clean out all the tanks before heading home. We hadn’t been impressed with the bathrooms and shower facilities, and were pleased when the ranger that took our payment said they were closing in September to build new facilities. They have another campground in…
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RPI to Caledonia State Park
Auditorium at RPI The real reason for the trip to Brenda’s was so we could tour the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) campus in Troy. A combination of very old and ultra-modern buildings sit on the side of a hill overlooking the Hudson River Valley. We were a bit disappointed in the school since they only…
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Portland, Maine
On Street (Hill) Parking Don & Donna filled us up with delicious scrambled eggs and sent us on our way with two bags of homemade cookies. Traveling south, the sun came out and we decided to stop in Portland because my cousin Linda mentioned a walking trail on the harbor front with a narrow gauge…