Honeymoon Road Trip July 2009

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After about 12 hours of travel, we made it from Marblehead to Intercourse, PA. It was only about 400 miles and should not have taken this long. Various obstacles, such as avoiding tunnels, missing exits, and paranoid gas filling up far away from the highway caused us to be many many hours behind "schedule." But when we arrived across the, shudder, NJ border things were already looking up. I was not impressed with the entire bit of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey- only stressful and congested and not too thrilling. But PA, especially the Dutch Country made a huge difference in keeping our spirits up. And the prospect of barbecue once we bought some meat. When I pulled up to the RV campground and saw the "Sorry, Full" banner I swallowed my heart. But magically our non-committal online reservation was posted to the door and one of the last remaining spaces was still saved for us at 7:30 pm.

We walked into "town" waving to all the Amish folk in their horse and carriages. Of course everything was closed so we headed back with barbecue on the brain.

And tomorrow we'll head to North Carolina and hope for better travel....

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Photos

Vincenzo's first Fourth
Marblehead, MA

Gettin' Ready at Gramma's
There she is, the Shasta Revere

Psychadelic truck with mirror
Self portrait at the toll booth

Our first Honeymoon meal
You can still see the class Marden's 99 cents price sticker on the citronella candle. But the stemless unbreakable wine glasses really ARE classy! Thanks Butterworths!

Tablecloth
from Ruby! We are totally the most chic RVers on the land with our full out Italian table setting.

Comments

[Smoothie]

not surprised
If Vincenzo brought his GPS from Italy, I can't wait to see who's back yard it takes you through in the appalachians. :-) But with his luck, it would have the lone random gas station on the one lane road, so not to worry. :-) Ciao

[Smoothie]

Appropriate First Stop
I can't believe you stopped in that city for your first night. How appropriate or inappropriate!