Back on the Road!Oct 23, 2007
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Tree Fossils in PA
| After our crazy day of packing yesterday, we still weren't done as of this morning. I got up early and tried to finish putting the rest of our stuff back in Marvie and making some food to leave with Grandma. The kids settled into their usual morning of being TV vegetables. Grandma Rose came over to say goodbye and decided to go for one more round of "pay the kids for their knowledge" that she started yesterday for quarters. Today, however, $10 bills were involved. Watch out Jeopardy! Uncle John and Aunt Paula also stopped over for coffee. It is funny; we were there for over a month and still didn't get time to see all of the people that we had planned to see. No matter how much time you have, it just never seems to be enough. It was hard to say goodbye to Grandma, but it was time for all of us. We have had a wonderful time with her and will treasure it. I doubt we will get to spend that much time with her again. But who knows, she is a healthy old bird and will probably live 13 more years to make the Smucker's happy 100th birthday club. I know that she enjoyed us, but I also know we turned her world upside down. She didn't get to rest like she needs and we made a disaster out of her house while we were there. Not that she minded the mess, but she had a hard time with her clarity when things are so confusing. It was getting hard on us as well. The kids needed to be able to run around outside more and get away from that TV! I needed to get away from the TV! It was bitter sweet for all of us. Plus, the nomad in me was itching to move on. We spent almost 5 weeks in the same place. It felt so good to be back on the road! Back in our stuff. We had been staying inside Grandma's house, so we didn't have all of our things around us. It was like staying in a hotel. It made me realize just how much Marvie IS our home. It has everything we need in it (and still quite a bit that we don't!). We drove south to the west of Philadelphia. And it is one of these places that you just "can't get there from here". We could have driven 50 miles out of the way to go west or to go east to the NJ Turnpike, but at 6 MPG, decided to skip that. So we took a highway that hit every stop light from NY to Phili. And managed to hit outbound 5:00 traffic west of Phili. Being the navigator, it wasn't one of my better decision days. The campground we were heading to gave directions, but they just seemed so out of the way and silly. So I came up with my own and ended up driving us through the smallest, narrowest, dangling tree-est streets we have ever been on. So, now I know why the out of the way directions to get here. Aside from almost loosing our AC unit to a branch, I am sure that we broke several ordinances. Once we turned on a road close to the campground we saw several signs that said, "RVs allowed", which leads me to believe that where we had come from, they were not allowed. As we were driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, they had all of these buffer walls on the side with tree designs in them. Joe said they looked like Tree Fossils. "Welcome to Pennsylvania, home of the Tree Fossils, where proof exists that trees once grew wild before this massive interstate structure you see here before you today". |
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