Showing posts with label Clarion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clarion. Show all posts

5/13/2023

May 9, 2023 We are Home!

(Note: This blog is picture intensive.  Many of the pictures were taken as we were driving so they may not be super sharp. But the scenery just had to be captured. Notice the topography changes as we traveled– Amazing!)

After a nice quiet night at Walmart, we were up and heading east again.

A little cloudy:

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Passing the highest point in Pennsylvania:

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Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains:

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Folks in the “holler”:

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Thru some mountain passes:

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And past farmland:

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Aren’t those mountains beautiful!

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And so are the farms:

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Heading southeast now – over the Susquehanna River:

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Passed more farms:

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Love the green hills:

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We arrived home early afternoon.  Great to be home!

Today’s stats:

Miles Traveled: 201 Miles 

Routes Traveled:

Pennsylvania: PA-68; I-80; PA-54; PA-901; US-209

May 13 – We have been busy opening up the house and closing down the motorhome.  We will be home for the summer and hope to head out again in the fall – no time frame yet.

Our only plans are to reconnect with our friends and family. (Hint: Feel free to stop by.)  And, of course, see all our doctors..  LOL!

Stay tuned for our next adventure and enjoy today and the summer!

Thank you all for following along!

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May 8, 2023 Traveling to Pennsylvania

(Note: This blog is picture intensive.  Many of the pictures were taken as we were driving so they may not be super sharp. But the scenery just had to be captured. Notice the topography changes as we traveled– Amazing!)

We woke to cloudy skies, got ourselves and the motorhome together and off we went to the east, past more farms:

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Into Ohio:

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Where we found another muffler-type man:

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More wind turbines (they are all over the U.S.):

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Looks alien, doesn’t it?

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Past farms:

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And wineries:

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The skies are clearing – YEA!

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All that white is dandelion gone to seed..what I call “puff-balls”  Smile

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Past many swollen rivers:

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Into Pennsylvania – we are almost home:

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We stopped at the PA Welcome Center and found a Peter Toth statue – one of the “Whispering Giants”:

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We have seen a few of these on our travels.  The interesting story can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_the_Whispering_Giants

https://postcardhistory.net/2021/06/peter-wolf-toth-and-his-trail-of-whispering-giants/

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=14zbWNd9SX-ij52j72VpSJcPGU6w&hl=en&ll=44.63262389136883%2C-113.15829150000002&z=4

Our travels continued:

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After 400 miles – long day – we settled in at a Walmart in Clarion, PA.  We should be home tomorrow so stay tuned and enjoy today.

Today’s stats:

Miles Traveled: 400 Miles  (Long Day)

Routes Traveled:

Indiana: IN-120; IN-9; US-20; I-69; I-469; US-30

Ohio: US-30; I-71; I-76; I-277; I-77; I-76; I-80

Pennsylvania: I-80; PA-68

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