Tagged: pennsylvania

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Driving to New York and Taking Photos

Well Laura did the driving and I did the taking photos. (Or as John calls it, “Drive by Shooting.”) Laura asked me if I wanted to go with her one weekend to New York to see some waterfalls. I said YES! I didn’t have to think about it much, I...

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Roadside America 2016

John and I had been to Roadside America once before together, yet I wanted to go again, this time with the children. Roadside America is a model railroad miniature village. It’s located in Pennsylvania. It’s made with a lot of attention to detail. It was kind of interesting to see...

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Autumn Drive

Besides seeing my precious family, another reason to come back to Maryland was my favorite time of year. I came back at the peak of autumn colors! My apologies and thanks to  my son Miquel, who did all the driving and put up with me!  🙂

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A Visit to Amish Country

Note: Not all of the photos I took this day could be put up here, but I have a set uploaded to my gallery here, two pages! I had been to the Amish Country before, once with Marta and Pepe, and it rained and didn’t really know where we were...

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Club 19

Saturday night, Miquel and band, Embers For Ashes, played at Club 19 in York, Pennsylvania. It had been a hard and exhausting week, so I really didn’t feel like the drive, but Forrest was so kind to take us. The band played like professionals. They were confident, in sync, and...

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Surprise Birthday Greeting

Birthdays are especially neat when you get greetings and good wishes from friends. Myrna really made my day when I got her email with updates on her life and a brief walk down memory lane. She found and then scanned an old photo of us, taken on one of our...

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Roadside America & Amish Country

From New York City, which is one extreme, to the hills of Pennsylvania to Roadside America and Amish Country. Roadside America , is the largest indoor miniature village I have ever seeen. It is a panorama of life in rural United States. The exhibit spans more than two hundred years in...

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Postcard Collection

It was truly tempting to call this “Postcards from the Edge” after the week I just had, but, I resisted. As I mentioned in another blog, Tuesday I had 12-13 hours of straight driving, with one small break for lunch. On the way home, I was feeling fatigued and thought...

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Driving in Pennsylvania

  Long before Mapquest, driving through Pennsylvania was truly an experience. My parents and I often made jokes that their signs rarely matched the correct information. Route numbers seemed confused, detours were enough to send you into another dimension, and towns were marked but somehow never appeared, just like their...