Day 1 April 14 2016
The rig is packed and ready to go. No small feet. Carolyn has been gathering necessaries for months now. Stuff like toilet paper, plastic spoons, wine, tequila, more wine etc., etc.
The refrigerator has been turned on for 2 days and we bring the food and freezer stuff out. Open the frig and it is warm as a puppy behind sitting in the driveway. Lights are on, fan is running but no cold air. So 15 buck worth of ice and some cheapy styrofoam coolers and we are good to go. Tiffin will fix/replace it when we get down there.
10 AM the car is on the dolly and we are headed down the road. First stop will be a one nighters at Walmart in Newburgh, NY. Great reviews and perfect distance for us. We get to Newburgh and decide to fill up the gas tank. Scope the station out and I am sure we can make it in and out. I turn left at the farthest pump and slowly inch forward while watching Carolyn in the mirror. She signals a panic stop. Long story short. The tow dolly left fender almost hits the concrete pump barrier. No harm no foul but you have already guessed, it is near impossible to back up a loaded tow dolly so we offload the car, detach the dolly move the rig, fill it up, move the dolly, reattach it, load the car on and we are out of there about an hour latter.
Wall,art is only about a half mile away but we make a wrong turn out of the station and 10 miles later we find Walmart. This is a supper store and there are 10 RVs already parked at the far end of the lot. No problem plenty of room for us. We park it and are set for the night. Turns out we are the only people there heading South the rest are Québécois heading north from there winter in Florida. No English spoken here so it was a quiet night.
We were in bed by 8PM exhausted. I slept till midnight and was than wide awake. Carolyn slept till 5AM.
Day 2 April 15 2016
Coffee, Raisin Bran and off we go. First stop Blue Beacon truck wash. What a disappointment. The rig came out of there all streaked and water spotted. Worse than when it went in.
Out of Blue Beacon we turned right. That's what the GPS appeared to indicate. You know that GPS dead zone when you have been parked and start to leave, the GPS needs to reorient itself but it can not do so until you are moving so you guess, left or right, yup we went right. 37 feet of RV and 14 feet of tow dolly and car. Did I mention it takes a runway to turn this thing around and Devine intervention to back it up? Tiny ass country roads and GPSes that insist we turn around. Oh look a road to the left. Same stuff EXCEPT! Another plot twist. We are 1/2 mile on this road and Carolyn sees a big yellow sign 9 ft bridge 1 mile. Holly puppy poop batman we are 13 feet tall. Our heads are at 81/2 feet. Caroly wants to know what my plan is. I ain't got no stinkin plan. We drive about a half mile more and things are getting scary. Suddenly I see a street on the left, a houseing development. We turn in and the sign says Not AThru Street. We go real slow looking for a big driveway. Nothing... Than we see it, a cul de sac. What a beautiful sight. Around we go. We are alive , not beheaded, and going in the right direction.
200 hundred mile later we are in Lancaster PA. at a pretty little camp ground. We settle in, fill the refrigerator with ice and we now have an ice box.
2 pm we head into Lancaster to find the Sherrif. Why do we need the Sherrif you might ask? Well the day before we left the Cape, Carolyn got her licenses to carry a firearm and si de we were in PA we thought we would try to get a PA license also. At 3 pm which included 20 minutes of travel time, she walked out of the Sherrif office $20 dollars lighter, with a PA license to carry, good for 5 years. You gotta love PA.
That's it, we are here for 2 nights.
