We are here a little to early for all the activities to be open, but the campground sections that are open were full for this Easter Weekend. They have a pet friendly loop here and if you bring a pet you're required to stay in that loop, the sites are $2 more than any other loop? No water turned on inside the camping loops so as of this weekend the only water available is at the big main bathhouse, the only one open by the way!
 THURSDAY |
TRAVEL DAY |
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"The Keystone State"
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Today we not only crossed into our 13th visited state, we also finally broke out of the Southeastern United States. Pennsylvania is considered to be in the Northeastern United States and that's where we plan to be spending the next four months. By this time in August we should have visited all nine of our northeastern states.
After unhooking and getting all set up at our new home we went into the small town of Ohiopyle, PA to get some lunch. On the way there we did a little sightseeing by stopping to explore a couple of waterfalls in this area. The first was Cucumber Falls, which was about halfway into town and the second was Ohiopyle Falls on the Youghiogheny River, which was right across the street from where we ate lunch.
Cucumber Falls
One other thing we did on the way home was to stop at one of the picnic areas inside the park and take a short walk up a trail to a scenic overlook. Our purpose for doing so was to search out a geocache location that was hidden at the overlook. For me, this is what I enjoy about geocaching, it gets us out to explore places we may not have otherwise visited. Turns out the scenic overlook is overlooking the town where we just had lunch.
The view from the geocache location. See the red building?...
That's were we ate lunch at the outdoor seating that overlooks the river.
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SIGHTSEEING DAY |
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Sorry we didn't take any pictures while we were here because it was chilly and raining very hard, other than the Visitor's Center the whole Memorial is outdoors. We did put on our raincoats and take the long walk to the actual crash site, the memorial wall and also the yet-to-be-completed 93 foot tall Tower of Voices wind chime.
Inside the Visitor Center there are displays with television coverage of the attacks, timelines of everything that happened that day, audio recordings of some of the phone calls made from the plane to loved ones back home and of course photos of the 40 passengers and crew. It was all very well presented and to hear the phone calls you actually had to pick up a telephone handset if you wanted to listen to them (we couldn't bring ourselves to listen to any of them).
We scored a bonus visit to a pair of covered bridges along our route to the Memorial. It seems with 10 bridges here in Somerset County this is the hot spot for covered bridges in Pennsylvania. About 219 covered bridges still remain in Pennsylvania, which is the most in any one state. These two bridges we visited were only about two miles apart and cross over the same waterway.
The Kings Bridge
The structural engineering that holds up a Burr Truss bridge.
 SATURDAY |
WORK DAY FROM THE POD |
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 SUNDAY |
RELAXATION DAY |
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