A glimpse of the Foothills Before the Rain We’re relaxing after a quick trip to Asheville, NC. We were up in the mountains to tour the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA). They have a Mechatronics major that interests Noah.  It is a combination of Electrical, Mechanical, and Computer engineering. We were going to…

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…

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…

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…

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…