Author Archives: Trail Rocker

Last Saturday Barbara and I visited the nearby Cape May Zoo. This is quite the zoo considering everything is paid for by donations and the proceeds from the food and gifts they sell. There is no fee to visit but a bottled water costs $3.25. I don’t mind because the money goes for the animals.Continue reading “Cape May Zoo”

Last evening Barbara and I drove down to the beach in hopes of seeing the full moon rising over the ocean. Unfortunately, there were too many clouds to see the moon reflecting off the water. So while we were waiting, I took some photos of the birds, the pier, the sunset and eventually the moonContinue reading “Full Moon”

This past Monday we landed in New Jersey. Today, Barbara and I walked the boardwalk along the Jersey Shore in the town of Avalon. This is a nice, small town with a very nice, clean beach. We also stumbled upon a bird sanctuary, but unfortunately there weren’t a lot of birds present for viewing orContinue reading “Jersey Shore”

On Friday, Barbara and I took a drive to visit Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.  Everywhere we went we encountered road construction and toll roads.  Needless to say we didn’t go very fast during our travels.  Which made me think back to 500 years ago when the first settlers, on the Mayflower, arrived in Massachusetts. Continue reading “Slow Going”

On Monday, after 33 days in Pennsylvania, Barbara and I headed north to upstate New York. The town of Accord is one of those places where if you are travelling at 55 mph on the highway and blink, you’ll miss the whole damn town. There are a few houses and a post office and that’sContinue reading “Accord, New York”

Today Barbara and I took a nine mile ride on a train being pulled by the Great Western #90, 2-10-0 steam locomotive built in 1924. This train ride travels through the heart of Amish country in Pennsylvania. All of the railcars have been restored to their original condition. Back in 1863 President Lincoln traveled byContinue reading “Strasburg Rail Road”

Barbara and I landed in Hershey, Pennsylvania last Monday. The Thousand Trails (TT) Park where we are staying is one of the nicest we have had the pleasure of visiting. It has been raining a lot since we arrived, but yesterday I had a chance to get out and take a hike around the park,Continue reading “Hershey”

This past Sunday, Barbara and I travelled west from Bloomsburg to Centre Hall, Pennsylvania. We visited a cave known as Penn’s Cave. What makes this cave different from our previous cave adventures is that this cave is only accessible by boat. The entire cave floor is covered by three to five feet of water. TheContinue reading “Penn’s Cave”

Yesterday Barbara and I travelled from the southern part of Pennsylvania north. We landed in the town of Bloomsburg at the Indian Head RV Park. This was the only RV Park we could find that had space for us over the Memorial Day weekend. We will be here until Monday when we head south toContinue reading “Memorial Day Weekend”

Yesterday Barbara and I traveled east to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. It was the winter of 1777-78, shortly after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  The British had taken over the capital of the new republic, at that time the city of Philadelphia.  To avoid capture the Continental Congress had moved out of the capitalContinue reading “Valley Forge”