Home!

We stopped here at this roadside rest area for lunch. The view was pretty nice.

Oddly at the rest area was a guy I know from Boston on the way home from his sisters house in PA. How random.

Usually on trips we run into people we know but not usually at the rest areas.

Final Pit-Stop on the Mass Pike for a coffee and bathroom break! We are just an hour from home now.

Coming home on Sunday nights was good as traffic on our street was pretty quiet and backing in went quickly.

It takes a few minutes to back the Airstream into our driveway which is barely as wide as my truck. Usually we hold up traffic for a couple of minutes.  The backing up isn't that hard after 2 months of practice but it is more stressful when there are short lines of cars waiting.

It wasn't that late so we ended up unpacking the trailer even know we have plenty of time to take car of all that.

Final Stop

Hard to believe but our second long trip is almost over. We are stopping here at  "The Woods" in PA for a few days of relaxing. It is a weekend and we didn't have reservations so we are just in the overflow field with no power or water hookup.  But the weather is perfect to have all the windows open feel a cool breeze come through the trailer. Such a contrast to the Everglades where the AC cranked 24/7.

It is nice to end the trip with a few days relaxing around a pool and taking a dip in the hot tub in the evening.  We stopped here last year on the way home from Alaska too but it was a bit too cold for the pool at the end of Sept.

They showed a movie saturday night but we didn't watch, it is nice setup though.

We did some short walks here and took out a pedal boat for a spin around the pond. Sunday we are driving the scenic route home avoiding the busy roads, it will 300 miles but we will be home so it doesn't really matter what time we get in.

A hike in Harpers Ferry

We are hiking a 8 mile loop that starts right in Harpers Ferry follows the AT and then loops around another trail to several viewpoints over the river.

We spotted this deer early on in the hike. Actually we saw way more deer just trotting around Harpers Ferry when we were walking around yester.

 This was the view from the first viewpoint.

 The main destination of the hike was called split rock. At first we thought this was it but it wasn't.

Now we made it to split rock it is actually a lot better view than in the trees. It is a big rocks outcropping one of which is split and "hanging" off the face.

That is Harpers Ferry, you can see it is just a little tiny town.

You can see will standing on the other side of the split but it isn't really impressive from this point of view. There was no good way to get a picture.

Move views

We hiked back to town and found an ice cream place to celebrate finishing the hike. Not that it was a big deal but any excuse for ice cream is a good one.

We did a little more walking up here to Jefferson rock. IT is now supported by those pilliar but it used to just hang there and Jefferson thought this was a special place. In his day they say the rock hung there and could be rocked by a person.

It was a good short visit in Harpers Ferry, the weather is about turn bad for a couple days so we are moving on. Riding some the canal bike trail would have been fun but high winds are coming and the campground suggested we at least move out from being camped under the trees before it hits.

Harpers Ferry WV

We were supposed to stop here in Harpers Ferry on the way south but something happened I forget what and we had to skip it.  But here we are we made it anyway, flexibility is the best part of travelling in the Airstream.

Harpers Ferry is a cool little town at the junction of the Potomac and the Shenandoah Rivers. The AT (Appalacian Trail) also runs right through town.

 It is also right on a important rail corridor and a former canal corridor, which is now part of a several hundred mile rail trail.  Riding that whole trail would be a fun bike trip.

It is a really pretty set of views from town.  Part of town is also a National Historic Park with people dressed up in period garb and doing old-y things.

And there is a cool tunnel. Below that tunnel is part of the Canal Bike Trail Corridor. It actually would take us right back to our campground in the next town which is right between the river and the canal bikeway.

 We got to see some more people hiking the AT from Georgia to Maine... some people do it the other order but not nearly as many.

None of them were any of the ones we met in the Smokies. We visited the AT Center where they have a small museum and a lounge for tired hikers to relax and take a break before heading back out to Maine.

Creepy Doll!

With all the rain and flooding levels we've seen on this trip the rivers are extra high and raging away.

Collonial Williamsburg

Before a trip back in time this colonial had to hit the rest room. I liked the tilework very clever.

After buying tickets and short movie you walk accross a bridge that takes you back in time. As you walk medalions in the pavement tell you how face back you are and what you just lost.. no more cell phone... no more TV... no more electricity.

There is a small working plantation and some farm animals. I wondered if the fence around this bull might also be electrified as I wasn't sure it's colonial construction could really hold him in.

Here was a kitchen in one of the houses. I really enjoyed another kitchen where someone was actually cooking all the old dishes the old way.

Sadly you could taste any of it.

Farmer working the land.

We went to a place kind of like this in NC but we did pay so all we did was walk around, at that place the streets were open to cars. Here they aren't and it makes a big difference to the atmmosphere.

You can just wander around here without paying but you miss out oll the interiors, tours and demonstrations. It wasn't cheap but for a whole day it was worth it

This main governors palace is a recreation but they have drawings and such to it said to be very accurate.

We didnt want to haul our cooler around so we didn't pack lunch today as we normally would. This turned out great because it poured right around lunchtime and it was nice to be in the Tavern with hot food.

 Poor wet sheep!