God bless America or more appropriate at this time God help America. Still taking time to recover from our road trip. As exciting as it was it was still very tiring so we are resting easy. Took the car in for its first checkup and oil change. It was due at 7,500 miles but we had 8,500 on it.
Trip Log
June 28, 2025
Left Craig & Janet's early on the 25th, had breakfast at the Wawa and watched a red hot-air balloon drift by before heading out on the 4 day return trip home, three 580-mile days followed by the final 400-mile trip.
June 24, 2025
Sunday we stopped for coffee at WaWa and drove to Lorton, VA and had a bite to eat across from the station before driving in at about noon, handing off the car to be loaded and sitting in the station waiting to get on the train. We boarded at two thirty and the train departed at four.
June 21, 2025
Early Friday morning Mike and Annika hiked with a group at Valley Forge park and afterwards we met them for breakfast at G-Lodge. We went back to the motel and checked out since the main street will be blocked off for the weekend starting that afternoon.
June 19, 2025
Off to Phoenixville and the Mainstay Inn by way of the George Washington bridge. We unpacked and walked to Mike’s house and we all walked back to town and had dinner at the Sedona Tap House.
June 18, 2025
Said our goodbyes and thank-yous to Steve & Laura for another great visit and went to Haverhill, Mass and had dinner at ‘The Peddler’s Daughter’, an Irish bar in downtown Haverhill. The Guiness was good, Alesa had a salad and I had fish and chips.
June 16, 2025
Steve drove us to Canada today and we had to get started early because they are an hour ahead of us and we are visiting Ministers Island where you can only visit during low tide because you have to drive on a 'roadway' that is only exposed during low tide.
June 15, 2025
The ladies took a walk while Steve and I changed a tire on his truck, installed a new Bimini top on his boat and rehung the address sign at the end of their driveway.
June 14, 2025
Laura & Alesa went back to Pickleball this morning while I didn't. Steve's last day of guiding while we are here so Laura drove us down to Machiasport and the shore at Jasper Beach.
June 13, 2025
Steve will be guiding through tomorrow, so, yesterday we went with Laura to a pickleball class. I helped the instructor by hitting balls to the class. There was open play afterward and I played one game at the end.