Pennsylvania

Interstate 79 north to south from Erie to West Virginia, Interstate 80

Across the heart of Pennsylvania

Of course the Pennsylvania turnpike filled with holes, construction, tunnels and magnificent views

From Scranton south from New York into the great city of Philadelphia

Well we have driven them all and even more

The drive from Harrisburg into Gettysburg and all the small narrow green land around Gettysburg

We have picked strawberries in a you pick-em field near Lancaster amid the ever present Amish

Lancaster is a town filled with Amish buggy's and farms and isn't quaint but rather special and has a very peaceful aura

Pennsylvania is indeed one of our prettiest states

We have been to Hershey Park many times and the last with our grandchildren and other young people

We rode the water rollercoaster and had our pictures taken

We tasted chocolate in the Hershey Chocolate Factory and spent the night in Hershey Pa

Hershey Park is a fun theme park for young and old and we like it

Gettysburg is a somber place that has way too much commercialism

Still there is no way you can visit without a since of what is there

The History of freedom and our country is summed up in Gettysburg

We have gone to the Panorama in the winter with no one else there and in the summer

when you had to wait hours

We have driven every road we could to see all that we could

The stone walls, brick roadways and monuments of every size and shape in every direction

We saw things each time that meant something different to us and

we felt different things every visit

It is most beautiful with snow gently falling over the quiet fields of glory

This is surprisingly to us one of our favorite places

Every human should visit and ponder this incredible place with its history and beauty

We have driven through Williamsport and thought the Little League Stadium was perfect

We have driven through Joe Namath's home town of Beaver Falls and

marvelled at how small it seemed

We have visited Valley Forge and shopped at

the incredibly large shopping outlets near Reading

It is a state where you can be caught up for hours on hours in unending traffic

It is a state where you can drive for hours through

gentle rolling green country with history all around

We remember driving past miniature horse farms near Gettysburg and

always stopping in Gettysburg no matter how little time we had

We have so many memories of the turnpike,

running out of gas just past a tunnel with a young unwed mother on her first trip anywhere

She was so panicky until she realized we were just fine and so we were

as someone stopped and gave us enough gas to get to a station

We went to a great Greek dinner with a wonderful belly dancer in Lebanon one trip and

have never forgotten the experience

We have driven past and through and into all the great Steel Mill Cities

We once drove to Philadelphia from Havre de Grace,

Maryland through Delaware and New Jersey

Where we bought Linda a small black and white TV as

I was entering Officer Candidate School

The drive was at night through traffic and we were so young and nothing mattered but us

We visited and toured Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station well before the accident

Many memories of a large pretty state of green fields often white with snow