Down to Pennsylvania

Conneticutt farm

We left New Hampshire on Thursday and headed into Eastern Massachusetts and Conneticutt, through Southern New York and into Pennsylvania. We left New Hampshire in the morning planning on making it halfway to our destination in Pennsylvania. But we didn't make it. We ran over something in the road in Massachusetts and Mike noticed that the trailer wasn't pulling right. We pulled over in the next town and Mike was able to determine that we had a broken very important springy do-hickey thing. (Aren't I technical?) We made it to an RV lot where we were able to get it welded back together. (We learned later, after further investigation that there is more damage to the trailer and have an insurance claim pending.) We camped in Northern Conneticut and left early the next morning to make it to Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site by Friday at noon.

                                                        Massachusetts farm

New York road.  Many places feel like wooded tunnels.

The farther south we went, the greener the leaves got.  The woods become more and more entirely hard woods and tamarak and by the time we got to Pennsylvania, there were almost no firs or pines.  We avoided the turnpikes and drove on highways most of the way.  The roads are more narrow than we are used to and have many houses right next to the road.  The older the house, the closer it is to the road.  At one point I saw a man sitting on his front steps watching the traffic pass two feet away from his feet.  I envision the old wagon tracks that eventually became the highways.    We passed through many small towns.  While the towns are small, they are all very close to each other.  Within ten square miles, it is not unusual to have four towns.  Very different than Washington State!