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Adding the Virginia State Sticker to the Map

October 4, 2023 After spending a couple of nights at Candy Hill Campground, it was time to add the Virginia State stickers to the maps.

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Candy Hill Campground Outside of Winchester, Virginia

October 4, 2023 We stayed at Candy Hill Campground from September 15 to September 22. The weather was glorious fall days and the scenery was the spectacular Shenandoah Valley. Candy Hill Campground was a very pleasant campground. Some sites came with a patio with nice patio furniture and a gas grill already set up for […]

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Heading to Candy Hill Campground, VA

October 4, 2023 As we only had four nights at French Creek State Park, PA, on September 15 (Friday), we finished packing up and hitching up with a small incident. In hitching, Bruce backed the truck up to to the pin and he was finding it hard to get aligned. So he asked me to […]

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Adding the Pennsylvania Sticker to the Map

October 3, 2023 During the evening of September 13 (Wednesday) at French Creek State Park, we add the Pennsylvania state stickers to our maps. Bruce added the state sticker to the map on the slide and I added the state sticker to the map on the freezer drawer.

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Heading to French Creek State Park, PA

October 2, 2023 We left Doolittle Station on September 11 (Monday), heading back onto I-80 east. Most of the route was along I-80 east, but at some point our GPS took us along some backroads to French Creek State Park. Once we arrived at French Creek State Park, I got out to see if there […]

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On to Doolittle Station in DuBois, PA

On September 10th (Sunday), we completed the packing up and hitching up and rolled out of Gotta Getaway RV Park. We headed up Ohio 4 to I-90 east and then to I-80 east. We pulled into Doolittle Station and checked in with the Harvest Host, Boxcar Brew Works. We did minimum set up of the […]

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Miller’s Drive-In in Bellevue, Ohio

October 1, 2023 On September 9, we spent a good bit of time packing up the RV to head out the next morning. When it got to be supper time, I didn’t feel like cooking anything and cleaning up again. I had wanted to try Miller’s Drive-In, as it was top rated (in Google Maps). […]

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A Trip to Huron, Ohio to the Beach and Lighthouse

October 1, 2023 On September 8, we headed north to Sandusky to see Lake Erie. We reached Ohio 2, just south of Sandusky and turned east to Huron. The soybean fields we passed were turning yellow. We stopped in at the Nickel Plate Beach. It was empty except for us and the gulls. While I […]

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Historic Lyme Village Outside of Bellevue, Ohio – Part 2

September 28, 2023 We toured Cooper General Store and got to see a demo of a bottle capper. We were very familiar with bottle cappers since we had one when Bruce bottled his home brew beer. The old cash register still worked. It would allow for cash as well as purchasing on account. Schug Hardware […]

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Historic Lyme Village Outside of Bellevue, Ohio – Part 1

September 27, 2023 I wanted to see the Historic Lyme Village that was in the brochure on the left. We stopped in to get a tour of the Historic Lyme Village on September 2 (Saturday). we received the brochure on the right in the above picture after paying. We paid the entrance fee and looked […]

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