We didn't get a very early start today. We wanted to enjoy just a bit more time with Rick and Mary. It was also raining, so no rush to get out on the road.
Nance planned a route that would take us through Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. It took us days of hard driving to pass that many states on the way out here. We took credit for New Jersey too, we decided we passed close enough to its border. Hello and good bye Governor traffic jam!
The rain came and went all day, but our tiny vacuum wipers valiantly hissed and clacked a good fight that kept us in the game. There was only one short period of really heavy rain that tempted Bill to stop. It was hard to see ahead and we worried about folks seeing us with no lights on the LaSalle. But the heavy rain eventually slowed up and returned to a sprinkle.
I-84 took us through the beautiful Pocono mountains of PA and around most of the congestion of Scranton. When I-84 died, we switched to I-81 which headed SW towards Harrisburg. We passed several exits to Hershey. Bill has airplane reservations this year to go to the annual mega-swap meet there. Too bad it didn't start a couple of weeks sooner, he would have liked to take it in as part of this tour.
After Harrisburg, we switched to US 15, a nice four lane highway taking us south through Gettysburg and on to Frederick MD. There we found a great Mexican restaurant and a clean and comfortable Enonolodge, Tomorrow we will carefully try to navigate around the DC area traffic to visit some old friends from Bill's high school days. Total distance: 377 miles. Sorry, no pictures today, we had too much rain and managed to forget to pull out one of the many cameras we have at several photo ops.
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