Early in January we drove to Philadelphia to see a couple of museums. I changed the background on the crystal ball. This crystal ball is 10 inches in diamater and the piece weighs 50 pounds. I hope the future is brighter for all of us.
About: Crystal Ball (The Dowager Empress) – Asian Collection Highlights – Penn Museum
We drove through a small part of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and up through part of Pennsylvania back to New York. There was fog early in the mornings. We spread the trip out over three days and stayed overnight at two places. The drive from Gatlinburg is 710 miles and if we drove straight would take over 11 hours. I took these with a Samsung Galaxy S22.
I had a hard time finding decent restaurants in the Poconos until a fellow traveler recommended Skytop Lodge | Poconos Resort | Skytop, PA. We dined at the Windsor. It was the best meal of the trip. I enjoyed exploring the fancy building and grounds.
The Kutztown countryside with covered bridges and red barns is idyllic. “Like most of Berks County, Kutztown was settled predominantly by Germans, most of whom came from the Palatinate region of southwest Germany, which borders the Rhine river.” (Kutztown, Pennsylvania – Wikipedia.) We drove through Greenwich, Pennsylvania too.
We did a touristy thing and visited Historic Crystal Cave | First Show Cave in Pennsylvania (crystalcavepa.com). The history page is intersting. The cave was discovered in 1871 and some of the rock formations are a half-million years old (Crystal Cave (Pennsylvania) – Wikipedia.)
After a walk in Paradise Creek and Tobyhanna State Park we had a cook out. The nice thing about vacationing in the Autumn is there are almost no people, especially when it rains off an on.
Millbrook Village in Delaware Water Gap (njskylands.com) is a charming old historical place with many lovely buildings and things to photograph.
In October we spent a week in the Poconos in Pennsylvania. The main purpose was to see the Fall Colors and waterfalls by the Delaware River. This is the first of 7 posts covering this trip.
