August 1, 2014 On the Road Again

Friday August 1, 2014

 Please let me up that tree.  There are rodents.  I know I can get them.  Darn...

 My morning walk took me along a 2 lane highway and up a side street.  Beautiful agricultural areas escort me along with wildflowers of white, blue and pink.  That apple tree has a gazillion green apples.  I can imagine what it was like in 1863.  There were probably troops and artillery getting in position.  The old barn that I see was probably here to witness the events.  It is hard to imagine a place as pretty as this was nothing but bodies and body parts.

 Poor Rudy, he wants off his leash sooooo bad!

 We readied Hannah and for the first time, I agreed with Samaaaaantha about our direction.  Up hwy 15, to Harrisburg then up I81.  As we approach Harrisburg, which is the capital of Pennsylvania, we cross over the Susquehanna River.  Continuing north, we pass rolling hills, trees, even a few ski areas (that we would probably scoff at after skiing the Sierras and Rockies).  Scranton had road work... that part was painful, then we cross into New York.  It is quite scenic and green... that incessant green...  At Binghamton, we catch I88 east.

 Spouse must stop at a Dairy Queen.  He cannot help himself.  Then we find I88 and then hwy 28 north towards Cooperstown.  Spouse kind of put in GPS coordinates for the RV park.  Kind of...  How do you 'kind of' put GPS coordinates?  Beats me, but we ended up on a cow farm in the middle of nowhere.  I called the RV park and we then found our way.  It is only about 10 miles from Cooperstown, but it feels more like 50 miles.  At this campground, they allow 1 hour of free Wifi. Really?  Not that I have a burning desire to be connected, but 1 hour?  Really?  The electricity is not enough to power our air conditioner.  Good thing it isn't hot.  As long as our fans are going, we should be ok.  The showers are incredibly far away.  As the princess, I will shower in Hannah, but we do not have sewer hook ups here, so we have to be very careful about how much water and waste we put in our tanks.  But it is a weekend so things are busy.  And Hunter Hayes is performing this weekend somewhere here, thus we take what we can get.  As a retiree, I do not like weekends.  I know this evokes so much sympathy from y'all!

There is a pond here and the boys are fishing.  It was a two vodka tonic day for me...