An Historic Election Day We left New Jersey to drive on to Maryland. It was sprinkling, but the trees still looked beautiful in the rain. Some of them were radiant as if they glowed form within. As we crossed the Delaware River into Wilmington by yet another bridge, we were impressed by how many businesses, shipyards, railroad tracks, shipping containers piled up, etc. there were. One of the biggest industries was Du Pont. They started their business making gunpowder here in1803. Their 1000 acre estate, Winterthur, is filled with antiques. We went on to Newark, Delaware to trade Rich's oxygen [View Full Entry]

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Today is Philadelphia day. As we drove towards the city, we saw cell towers in odd places. Nancy looked up cell towers online. They are really called base transceiver stations because, as we noticed, they are not always on towers. Apparently you can lease a high place to a cell company. We saw them on water towers and on church steeples. We saw fake trees again. Online, they were called "stealth cell towers". They had a picture of one disguised as a palm tree. We haven't seen one of those, yet. (chuckle) We paid $4.00 to cross the bridge again. From [View Full Entry]

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Rich found a booklet in the RV park office yesterday. Its title was "Valley Forge". We hadn't even given a thought that Valley Forge was nearby. We got excited and read a day by day list of activities and found a Revolutionary War Re-enactment today. Sounds fun! Nancy started to plot a route on the map when Rich suggested that she look online at Mapquest. It said 29 miles and one and a half hours. That seemed like a long time, but we went forth with the map. We passed several big horse farms. There was a truck stop that had [View Full Entry]

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We slept in and ate a late brunch. After yesterday's adventures, we needed some breathing time (as opposed to panting or gasping). Then we decided to go over to "Auto Row" in Media, Pennsylvania to see what they had in the way of new pick-ups that don't have the hiccups. It cost us $4.00 to cross the toll bridge. We were excited to see that the lane dividers were "zippers" like they had in Boston. We'll explain later. The car lots had very hungry sharks (sorry, Stan) but they didn't have a truck we wanted bad enough to pay what they [View Full Entry]

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Happy Halloween! It was a clear and frosty morning. We planned a route to New Jersey that took us on a ring road far outside New York City, and we set off. We saw an osprey nest on a telephone pole. (Do we still call them that?) Okay, we saw an osprey nest on a wooden power line pole. No, the power lines aren't wooden. Okay, it's a power pole made of wood, but there were no lines attached anymore. The lines went across the road to a new pole. There were spikey wires attached to the osprey nest's pole about [View Full Entry]

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Before I start today's entry, I want to copy the comment Jodie tried to make about an entry: "I've tried everything to post a message on your blog. My stupid computer will not allow it. I wanted everyone to know that your story about the whale lip "bubble gum" is my first memory of my life. Period. That story/memory is a defining one, and has rewritten my life over and over again. It's inspired me and driven me to many of my goals and desires. Thank you so much for writing about it! Love you guys, Jo" She would have been [View Full Entry]

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We woke to the wind blowing the camper a little. There's also a little rain and it's cold. Places around us got some snow, but there's none here. We decided to go look at the bridges and the houses in Newport, today. After we got going, the sun came out and it was a clear day, but the news said Long Island Sound had gale warnings. Along the way, we noticed stands of trees dying in swamps. We've been noticing this since New York. Why are there trees in the swamps in the first place? Is there that much extra water? [View Full Entry]

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Today started out cold and rainy and windy. We expected rain today so we thought it would be a good day to go to the aquarium. We started out to the Post Office in New London to get some inhalers for Rich that Jodie had sent. After yesterday's Post Office experience, we looked at Mapquest before we left! When we got to the Post Office, there were police and fire people all around. We heard someone call in, "There's been a bank robbery." We got our package and got out of there. We didn't hear any more about it! New London [View Full Entry]

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This revelling in gustatory delights of the last few days must cease! Alas and alack! Today, our goal is to visit a Post Office and then go to Mystic Seaport, an outdoor museum recreating an 1800's seacoast village where shipbuilding, whaling, and fishing were the predominant industries. As we were totally lost from the directions to the "nearest" Post Office, we noticed that the fire hydrants along the ten miles of rural road were insulated, wrapped in black plastic, and duct-taped for the winter. We got to see farms - dairies, Christmas tree farms, and wineries. Lots of places and businesse [View Full Entry]

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The night was rainy and windy. Branches fell on the roof of the trailer. This morning, the air is so clean that each leaf on each tree is sharp and clear. Nancy climbed up on the roof to sweep away the leaves on the roof of the slide out and found that the "banches" that fell on the roof were really twigs. They just sounded big. We've spent eight days in this spot. It has been a very nice base from which to launch our adventures all around Massachusetts. On the road again, we've been noticing that there aren't as many [View Full Entry]

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