Hello from Evergreen
Tuesday December 7 2021 (tenth post of this travelogue)
Note: for some reason this post was not published. I have marked it as published on 12/7/201
Actually I am cheating a bit as I am back in Lincoln, but that is another post. This post will serve to summarize our “big” trip. We drove over 5000 miles and were gone a bit over 5 weeks (September 30-November 7). In general, the trip went very well. We had almost zero problems. We averaged about 11 MPG which seemed a bit low to me, but we hit a lot of wind and that just kills the mileage. The truck was comfortable (ride is a bit stiff on the terrible roads back east) and had good power to deal with most any situation. The camper did well for us, but the seating is not all that comfortable. We looked at what they call “theater seating” which is two recliners and a small divider. Time will tell if we make the change.
We set up a new Dish “mobile” account for the TV. We could call in at each location and they would change the spot broadcast so that we got local versions of the national channels. It is a bit pricey, but we only need to pay for those months where we use it.
Now to catch up on Gettysburg and Philadelphia. In Gettysburg we spent a day visiting Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center. The two highlights of this visit were the great movie: A New Birth of Freedom narrated by Morgan Freeman and the Cyclorama painting of the Civil War. We spent part of another day taking a bus tour of the National Park. It was a great adventure.
We were disappointed in our potential visit to Philadelphia. It turns out that many of the places we wanted to visit were only open certain days (Covid) and were not open when we had a day to tour. We thought about taking the Hop-on Hop-off bus, but the logistics of finding a parking spot (together with the closed attractions) put a damper on that. Instead, we just cooled our jets in the great campground.
Pat is working on a report of the cousins reunion and I will publish it when she completes it.
That is all for this trip.