Into Ohio

October 2-4, 2016 – Days #44-46

Heading west, 1^st time this trip. We had such a nice visit in CT – will miss the girls. The MoHo traveled through CT, NY, and into PA today – amazing how  close together many of the East Coast states are.  Had a pretty drive with many areas showing their fall colors along the roadside. Spent the night in Dalton PA – sort of a funky RV Park with a very green swimming pool.

Monday proved to be a frustrating day for us. Started by having trouble loading the Prius onto the dolly. What we didn’t realize was the spare had gone flat too, so it was causing the car not line up properly. Long story short we drove about 25 miles wondering what was going on with the towed – was really not lining up at all well. When we finally got off the highway we realized the problem. After waiting over an hour for a tow truck to bring us some air to pump up the spare, Mike went and bought some tire gunk that filled the tire enough to get us to a local tire shop. We got the regular tire repaired and back on the Prius. That was the solution, we reloaded her onto the dolly and all was back to normal; just frustrating to waste about 3 hours trying to fix it. Back on the road we drove on to Shippensburg, PA. The MoHo joined several RVs in a Wal-Mart parking lot for a nice quiet night. Interesting element to this Wal-Mart was their horse and buggy-parking shed that they have for the Amish Wal-Mart shoppers.  

Tuesday’s travels were again a wonderful show of color and natural beauty. We drove across the Cumberland Gap, enjoying a show of color and advancing and retreating fog banks.  On the itinerary was a visit to Shanksville PA to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial. Mike and I both were very moved by the tribute to brave men and women who perished fighting the terrorists that hi-jacked their plane.  Driving a long day of 300 miles we crossed the Allegany Mountains, onto St. Clairsville, Ohio.

"rock" is the actual crash site

flight path