CATEGORY
We're staying at the Lower Lake Campground in Promised Land State Park, one of Pennsylvania's earliest state parks. Apparently Shakers bought this land from the British Crown here in the land established by William Penn for religious freedom. It seems the Shakers...
We're headed to the Poconos today. Even by the shortest route the driving time is around four hours, a long day in our present state of mind. We're stopping fairly frequently. This time it's to seek a geocache at a interstate rest area. Beyond the picnic area there's...
The Quemahoning Dam was built beginning in 1911 to create a reservoir of water to supply the Cambria Iron Works in Johnstown in the years following the great flood. In recent years the area has been purchased by two local counties and besides supplying water to local...
After securing a site (RV-6) at the Quemahoning Family Campground we ventured into downtown Johnstown, parked next to the Amtrak station and walked across the river to the Johnstown Flood Museum. As we walked in we were struck by the fact that it was housed in library...
Left the Outflow Campground this morning and made our way to Quemahoning Family Campground staying successfully (so far) ahead of the storm system heading our way. We are entranced with the rolling green landscapes of Pennsylvania in summer! Now we're enroute to The...
In search of a Geocache we walked from the campground along the bicycle path and across what was once a railroad bridge to the edge of the town of Confluence, Pennsylvania an area surveyed in 1754 by George Washington!
To and from the town of Ohiopyle PA we traveled Sugarloaf Road and on the recomendation of fellow campers Joe and Arlene we stopped and parked at Baughman Rock Vista Overlook. Wow! Besides this incredible view, we got a bonus of a very well done geocache hidden in a...
After a morning at the laundromat in Confluence and lunch at the T@B, we wandered into the little town of Ohiopyle PA, on the Youghiogheny River right in the middle of the Ohiopyle State Park. There are so many recreational opportunities here, hiking, bicycling,...
We made the short walk from the campsite to the local purveyor of frozen confections and sampled their Extreme Cookies and Cream! Then to atone we walked in the opposite direction to see the powerhouse at the outflow and the massive dam towering over us. It gave us a...
See Park Video See History Talk Wow! American History come to life! Neither one of us knew much about Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania nor it's amazing role in American History. We came here to learn and learn we did. This was the site of the opening battle...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
Enjoy exploring, and leave us comments! We love hearing from you. And if you’d like to follow us, Subscribe by signing up at the bottom of this page.
Use the dropdowns to see sub-categories, or navigate the archives by month.
Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.