Amish Country...
We took several pictures before we found out that the Amish shun photography and don't care to be photographed. We respected their wishes and put the cameras away. Because of that, we weren't able to shoot the strawberry wagon kids.
Every night around dinnertime, two 7 or 8 year old Amish kids would go door-to-door in our RV park. . The kids were absolutely darling --- dressed in homemade overalls and straw hats, and towing a little red wagon laden strawberries and Whoopee pies. Those strawberries were delicious, ripe and firm, and picked earlier that afternoon by the two kids!! The whoopee pies were tasty too --- little chocolate cakes sandwiched with a cream frosting.
Yup. Despite our increased exercise level, we might be packing a few extra pounds.
| On the drive to Lancaster, we stumbled across Harpers Ferry National
Historic Park --- a place steeped in, well, history. With Manassas
to the East, Antium to the west, and Gettysburg to the north, it was a
pivotal point in the Civil War. Located at the confluence of the
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, it was a major manufacturing and
transportation hub and changed hands eight times during the course of
the war. You have to love that 19th century milling equipment........ We would have liked to spend more time exploring this place, but we had a long drive ahead of us. We smoked past Gettysburg without stopping. The RVers predicament: You can't see everything. |
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This is just a pit stop for on the way to New York City. I found Clinton on a business trip ten years ago. We going to ride the Columbia rail-trail and check out the historic district, then maybe get a bite to eat.
We rested in the Catskill Mountains.........
Next Stop: Boston. On the way, we visited the American Radio Relay League headquarters in Newington, CT. I got to operate the W1AW station.
Who needs a microphone? Di dah dit!
While we were goofing off, the good folks at the local Freightliner Service Center were fixing our exhaust manifold gasket and replacing our turbo (check out the "breakdowns" page).
The last weekend in June is ARRL Field Day, a 24 hour radio operating event where ham radio operators across the US and Canada test their emergency preparedness by setting up a remote camp and radio station. I operated from the RV, which oddly qualified me for a "home" class station (1D).
Saturday evening after dinner I took a break and visited the W1PBR Field Day operation at the American Legion Post 1.9 miles north of us in downtown Thomaston. Norm, NY1B, and Bert, N4CW, and their group were operating 4 radios in Class 2A. Even though the side of their directional beam was aimed at us, they were LOUD. I guess I blew them out of their chairs too.
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