View of pirate island sunset taken from Janie & Oscar's beach.

Pirate island on a sunny morning.

Janie & Oscar in front of The Old Country Store, founded 1781. This place had ALOT of neat things. We spent quite awhile in this store buying various obscure gifts for people.

The Mount Washington Hotel at Brenton Woods was built in 1902. This beautiful hotel is one of the few grand hotels remaining in this area. We drove up here, enjoyed the beautiful views and also ate a delicious lunch. New Hampshire is a state that we would like to spend more time in in the future.

New Hampshire

We are currently in New Hampshire visiting with Janie and Oscar Peters. This is the scene looking from their beach at Goose or Pirate Island.

Oscar and Wally are chatting as Sherry makes us a delcious dinner.

View of the Peters' house looking back from the beach. Everything is covered by fallen leaves.

View toward the island at dusk.

Liberty

Independence Hall where our nation's founders debated "Independency" in 1776.

Room where the first congress met in Philadelphia before Washington DC was born. This is where the first peaceful transfer of power to elected official was done in the world. (Washington to Adams)

Senate Chambers, Philadelphia. I loved this room.

Last picture, a comment on the draw of the Liberty Bell to all visitors, not just Americans. We saw more foreigners here than Americans. Look how happy the girls on the right are. They are viewing their pictures taken with the Liberty Bell.

Danny's Drive In

Due to Googles shutting down of my blog, this is the 4th time I have tried to make this post, but I have faith so here goes. Wally & I stopped to eat at a local drive in in N. Pennsylvania. I went into order while Wally made sure that we weren't blocking the driveway of the people who lived next door to the drive in. When he didn't come in, I went to check on him. He was making friends with the 80 someyear old former owners of the drive in who lived next door. They invited us to spend the night in front of their drive in and to "plug in" so we could run our heater and stay warm.

Inside Danny was having a meeting of his classmates to plan their 65th HS reunion! As we plugged in, the house went dark and the meeting was put on hold as they searched in the basement for the circuit breaker to restore the power that our little Egg had disrupted. Wally went in, saved the day (after being responsible for the darkness) and the meeting went on as planned. IN a few minutes Jo came out with a loaf of delicious nutbread and wished us a goodnight! Now that is hospitality!

I wanted to post these pictures of fall in Pennsylvania before we set out for Philadelphia. These pictures were taken at Hills Creek Campground in the northern part of the state. There are many rolling hills, creeks, swamps and lakes here. I thought the West had the majority of great recreational places in the U.S., but I have found out that isn't so.

A rainfall of leaves cascades downward every few minutes. I enjoy watching them on their peaceful descent.

Wally proves to be a great fire builder.

Wally found this on our hike. In front of us was a beaver dam. Thus we assume this to be a beaver skull.

Pennsylvania

Yesterday afternoon, in full sunshine, we entered the beautiful state of Pennsylvania. We were greeted by a brand new highway with a brand new welcome center. This beautiful view of a small PA town nestled in a valley was taken from the Welcome Center. The center featured many amenities, friendly people and many brochures and maps. (By contrast we were unable to find a welcome center in New York and received a map from a campground host who had found it on the ground). To my right as I took this picture was a huge busload of German tourists. They were enjoying the view and the sunshine as well.

Early morning boaters near our campsite. We are currently camped at Hills Lake State Park, PA. This campground is beautiful and very well kept up. As I write this blog my laundry is churning away in their new laundryroom. Their bathrooms and showers make an Arizonian weep with joy - they are heated!!! Everything is well kept up and clean. I love Pennsylvania!

Like a Grandmother who takes too many pictures of her grandchildren, I am entranced with the fall leaves. They are everywhere in many combinations of colors possible. A few minutes ago one of those maple "helicopter" seeds floated down in front of me and hit the ground gracefully. I was entranced. I don't think I have seen one of those since I was a child in Saint Louis.

View from near our campsite. A few steps and we are the edge of Hills Lake. Today we will visit the "Grand canyon of Pennsylvania" and report back on our findings.

Corning Glass Musuem

Yesterday we visited the Corning Glass Museum in Corning NY. Words can't begin to describe the wonders that are found there. This beautiful museum has examples of the earliest types of glass, supplies tours given by docents or audio, has shows that demonstrate glass blowing, breaking glass, telescopes, fiber optics, glass building supplies, fiber glass and more. We could have easily spent two days there. They have a wonderful cafe (important to Liz). Of course we sat in the enclosed patio type are in the sun. Yes folks, I said sun. The sun had been but a memory to us for a month, but it appeared yesterday after an early morning fog and we were glad to see it.

Although not clear in this picture, a huge shop offers all kinds of glass pieces. This crystal glass area had many examples of crystal animals in many different colors.

Glass being shaped by artisan.

This exquisite piece was at the end of the tour.
Although we hated to leave, we needed to move on the Pennsylvania while it was still light so we could find a good campsite with electricity. We wanted to have our electric heater operational due to the fact that it was expected to be in the 30's tonight! Yes, the 30's.