As it was Sunday, and all the shops etc are closed in Lancaster County and there was little buggy movement we decided it was a perfect day for us to move on. The Amish worship, rest and socialise in Sundays. Just an hour from our camping ground we were able to divert a little from our route north and made a stop at Hershey, the home of chocolate. The parking lots were huge, and we were surprised to be directed to special RV under undercover parking which was very...

I have to admit my knowledge of the American Civil War was very limited but now having visited Gettysburg in Pennsylvania it has improved somewhat. We stayed at the Battlefields Park Resort - this camp and its affiliates is run by membership and we had to attend a two hour sales talk! When we purchased the travel trailer we were given a voucher for a total of 30 nights free camping at this camp and a few others, and of course we were keen to use. We had no idea w...

Tempting as it was to stay put, after two nights we packed up at Waynesboro, Virginia and continued our journey north with our plan to continue our trek of the Great Smoky Mountains and this time to follow the Virginian Scenic Drive through Shenandoah National Park. The Scenic Drive is approximately 105 miles long and dare I say, is very similar to the Blue Ridge Parkway that we had driven further south in North Carolina and Tennessee. We drove just a short dista...

Back in Durham we were able to pay a visit to Cam's place of work and meet with his work colleagues. His office is in the redeveloped American Tobacco Campus. It was so good to meet his colleagues, and there was a real advantage for us as well - on Cam's return to the office after our lunch he was called into his boss's office. Together Bill and Cam then planned our six week trip north and by the time Cam came home I had links to five maps of stages and printed o...

The car had been booked in for a routine service on Monday and was ready by Tuesday lunch time so we decided as Cam was heading off on a business trip for a few days it was ideal timing for us to have our first trip away in the car towing the caravan. We left Durham early afternoon and headed down the I40 freeway towards the east to Jacksonville. It was extremely hot with the temperature outside sitting at 95 degrees F. We stopped a few times including at two lov...