Emergecy trip to Pennsylvain

    Hi, just a update. Linda's brother Tom passed away on Sunday the 4th. It was a shock to us as he was doing so well and Linda just spoke to him on her birthday. We decided to take our RV to PA  as we knew we had to be there in the Lancaster area for some time and the RV was the best choice. But what a trip it was going to PA. All told we had a little over 200 miles in detours because of flooding in North Carolina. The detour was on some lousy roads. Another slight delay was caused by a tractor trailer breaking in half, and another hauling a half of a park model home with a tire that was smoking and flying apart making us back off so as not to be hit with flying pieces till he could find a place to pull off the road.

    But we made it to PA to take care of details. We had a beautiful service on Saturday the 10th with pleasant weather. Not sure on what day we will be back to our home.  The only high point of the trip was  seeing our children, and  paying a  $1.93 for gas in SC & VA... We saw some beautiful fall colors which we haven't seen in a few years, guess we do miss north more than we thought.

     We had planned to do a month trip close to home for the month of October . No planes just get away. We scheduled no doctor appointments or anything else. Funny how things work out. 

Frogs

Some of the many frogs at our sons pond

I don't want my picture taken

Take mine, take mine

Me too

IN Pennsylvania

   Since we have been back in Pennsylvania we have visited with friends and families. We still have more friends to visit with. We have attended a Irish tasting event to raise funds for a friends child heading to Ireland on a school trip.  The menu follows
     Mini Welsh Rarebit
     Mini Haggis with neeps and tatties
     Black pudding with apples and mushrooms
     Mini boxty pancakes with smoked salmon
     Mini cottage pie
     Peas
     Mini fish and chips
     Mini trifle with raspberry and banana
     Mini shortbreads.


           There were bag pipers, dancers and a great harpist.

       In the future if we ever go to an Irish pub we know what to order and what not to order. All in all it was a great experience.

      We also got to attend a ABBA concert at the American Music Theater in Lancaster. The group, I guess you call them a tribute band was super. The original group formed in Sweden in the early 1970's. Abba comes from the first letter of their names, Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Anni-frid. They were two married couples. Their last show together was in 1982. Some of their hits were Money, money, money, Frenado and their biggest Dancing Queen. Mamma Mia the stage show and later a movie was based on ABBA songs. Its was a great show.

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Chevy HHR 54,000 miles +, time for some maintenance

                          PA temp low 20*w/35 mph winds, gust to 45 mph.

We try to maintain all equipment on schedule set by the manufactures. So it is  time for some maintenance on our HHR. We have a little over 54,000 miles on the odometer.  #1 Time to flush the transmission and replace the fluid. #2  Time to replace 4 tires. #3  Time for an alignment  #4 time for and oil change. An unexpected item was new brakes and rotors and two filters. Wow that's a lot of maintenance all at once, but I believe in preventive maintenance.  Sure puts a big dent in our budget. The total  cost was over $1100. We have to weigh the expense of traveling with a second vehicle. Everything is a trade off. Does it pay us to travel with an extra vehicle?  We have been asked that question many times.  We will continue this topic in another post.

                     Tonight lows in the teens with 20-25 mph winds

An Amish Wedding

     While traveling through  Lancaster county we came across this large gathering of Amish buggies. See the large tent set up in the background. This was a Thursday afternoon. Of course being naturally curious we had to get a closer look. There was car parking in the field across the street. We saw folks carrying gifts. So we pulled in and asked what was taking place. They told us it was a wedding.

My buggy is the one with the grey top and the red triangle in the back.

We think we saw Levi and the crew from the TV show "The Amish Mafia" at the wedding keeping out unwanted folks like us.

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More Pictures from Lancaster County

     We truly enjoy Lancaster County. I believe if God had 8 or 9 days there would be more areas like this.  While driving around I  believe we did see the gang from the reality show "Amish Mafia". In many of the stores they are selling "t" shirts with "Amish Mafia" printed on them. Nothing is safe any more from the TV producers. So sit back and enjoy the pictures.

This is pig heaven, did you ever see a pig this big

That is a women driving the team of horses

Kids waving

Beautiful sun colored sky

Beautiful Lancaster County Pennsylvain

   We can never get enough of Lancaster county. We enjoy this area so much that upon our demise, we may have our ashes spread throughout the county. We have had so much joy visiting this area we feel to be part of it. Here are just a few photo's. We have many, many more

This picture looks so great it almost looks fake.

School is out

Check out the colors and all the geese on the pond. Way to many geese to be healthy on the land or in the water. And there are more out of the picture.

Another one of those super great photo's that look to good to be true. But they are, we don't even know how to find or use some of those sites to make fake photo's.

Fall colors.

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Vanity Fair Reading PA - Free RV parking

     Free RV parking with 20 amp electric. 5 sites with electric but large area for dry camping for many more.  This is located behind the bus parking area. This is the original Vanity Fair outlets.  This facility opened some time in the late 50's or early 60's. At times we have seen 40-50 buses bringing happy shoppers. This was when "outlets" were "outlets".  There are still many different stores here.

Beautiful View out our window in Lancaster county

We are in beautiful Lancaster county PA. This is the view out our dinning room window.

The last time we were here these sites were full.  Many RVer's move on to warner climates.

How would you like to live in this farm?  Enlarge from the photo below, its in the center of the  picture behind those trees.

From our dinning room window.

Thanks for following along. Last night it was 28* here, A little to cold for us, but we hope to move to a warner climate sooooon.