Since leaving Massachusetts Tuesday, Sabina and I have had so many adventures, changed our route so many different times, and have enjoyed every second. We've had so many happenings that I barely know where to start!
- Slept on a hard wood floor and futon in a powerless aparment
- Walked the streets of New Haven
- Saw the dormitories at Yale where Rory from Gilmore Girls spent her years living
- Managed to drive into New York City with my car
- Saw the Statue of Liberty from the road
- Tried to paralell park
- R parked for me
- Drank tea
- Road the NY Subway to Times Square
- Walked into the New York City Public Library where Ghostbusters was filmed
- Sabina worked at Trader Joe's for 30 seconds, she held a Middle Of The Line sign
- Showered (there was hot running water)
- Slept on a futon in a warm, heated building
- Drank more tea
- Paid a $13 DOLLAR TOLL to leave the city
- Searched for ten minutes for Panera Bread
- Leo the Giraffe was adopted (she is three inches tall)
- Met Rick the Electrician
- Met another electrician who pointed us to the best view in PA
- Spent an hour taking pictures from a nursing home parking lot
- Drove to Amish Country
- Went through Intercourse
- Checked out Blue Ball
- Stopped in Bird-In-Hand
- Sabina bought an Amish hat
- Pumpkin Whoopi Pie
- Stopped for night in the middle of nowhere (Newburg, PA)
- Ate fantastic Chicken Parmesan H made for us
- Ate some more garlic bread
- Slept with six cats
- Woke up on a 4,000 head heifer operation
- Moved car for the semi that brought the new shavings
- Enjoyed Panera bagels for breakfast
- Looked at all the beautiful dairy calves and heifers
- Left H's
- Village of Lurgen Post Office...a story all by itself...
...so we are driving around looking for a post office and S's IPhone leads us to the one in Lurgen. We missed it the first time as we blinked too slowly. We turned around and pulled up to what appeared to be a large garden tool shed. As we walk in, we hear a voice gruffly asking us if we needed anything. We proceed to ask for postcard stamps. He asks us, "What are those?" Us, "Stamps, for a postcard?" Him, "I don't know if we have them. Let me check how much they cost." After he calls another person on the phone to determine how much postcard stamps are and if they carry them, he returns with a dilapitated photo album with stamps inside. Him, "How many do you need?" Us, "Twenty will be fine." He continues to count as we ask him how many are on a sheet. Him, "Twenty. Oh, you can just have a sheet." We almost roll our eyes. Meanwhile as this was going on, I was reading a sign that CLEARLY stated they accepted credit cards, debit cards, and personal checks. So, after he hands us our one sheet of postcard stamps with twenty stamps of 29 cent a piece stamps, he tells us the total. I had read they accepted debit cards...I mistakingly assumed they really did. Therefore I figured I would chance it and simply ask, "Do you do cash back?" Him, "What is cash back?" Me, "When you use a debit card with a PIN and you are able to get cash back." Him, "What? Don't you have cash? -pause- Our machine is down." (As if we were supposed to know) Luckily, Sabina is always to the rescue and was able to give this man the cash and we exited the tool shed. We nearly wet ourselves laughing upon reaching the car. We knew it was going to be a great day!
MOVING ON...
- Drove around on some crazy PA county roads
- Sabina was getting sick
- Stopped at the Path Valley Restaurant and Family Diner
- We were the youngest by fifty years and clearly from out of town
- Waitress tells us how she still can't believe people come into the diner in Spring Run, PA and exclaim that they will be "going to town today" like its a monthly ritual or reward. We couldn't really believe the waitress until we asked for a pharmacy or drug store and learned that the closest one was literally at least thirty minutes away
- Drove on I-76
- Paid a $9.25 DOLLAR TOLL
- Stopped at a Service Center and learned how much fun they could be
- Ate PB&J outside on random tables
- Sabina made robot heads
- Took lots of photos
- Waved at our FedEx men
- Drove thirty-seven miles to the next service center
- Drove to West Virginia
- Stopped at the WV Rest Area
- Tried to take a nap
- Continued to hang out in car at Rest Area
- I think we spent three hours at this Rest Area
- Drove five more miles
- Saw sign for Cabela's
- Walked around Cabela's for an hour
- Took lots of photos
- Laughed
- Laughed some more
- Drove to another Panera Bread
- Sabina shared her love of Dinosaurs with the staff of Panera with her most amazing outfit ever
- Tonight...
...and now we think we might go to the movies.
