Surrounded by Amish farms and in a caboose minimally converted to a motel room, still on its steel wheels and tracks along with nearly 50 other such converted train cars, I have an intermittent wifi signal. Go figure!
Highlights:
Getting here at all.
Left at 3:10 am. Got here around 11:45, about 430 miles later. On interstate in PA an overloaded old pickup truck dropped a 5' long round log in front and to the right of us. No other vehicles were between us and the bouncing beauty. Mike was driving and did well to wait for the log to decide where it wanted to go. Slamming on the breaks with all the traffic behind us was not a great option.
Anyway, due to its roundness and limblessness, it went mostly forward in the middle lane and didn't launch upwards. Mike went around it to the left. The cars immediately behind us made it by. After that I don't know. I hope for the best. That said, about five minutes later there were some PA state troopers lit up and heading in that general direction.
The PA State Train Museum and separate private excursion train and village across the street are way bigger than I imagined. We should be going to the museum today along with a ride on the train. They're setting up for a big Thomas the Toy engine event next week. It's supposed to be shown later on the Travel Channel or a similar outlet.
The first two young people we've met on this trip are named Daniel and Megan. For those of you who don't know, that would be the names of my two amazing children (even if this Megan doesn't spell her name correctly [Meghan]).
We ate last night at the Good 'n Plenty, a family style restaurant. Embarrassing amounts of food were set on the table: all you can eat wonderful fried chicken, ham, tender beef in gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, apple butter, whipped butter, homemade breads, stuffing, a sweet cabbage dish, green beans, cottage cheese, a noodle dish, pitchers of lemonade and brewed iced tea, ... [more soon I hope; moving location; want to publish this before I lose signal]
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