TTN Hershey

We left Ottawa at 9:15 am under clear and sunny skies and crossed into the USA at Ogdensburg. We followed Hwys 37 and 11 southwest until we hit I-81 south. Then it was clear sailing all the way into Pennsylvania. Lots of snow in the fields on the way through NY state, certainly more than we had in Ottawa. We stopped at one rest area to let Buddy out for a stretch. Chris prepared a cold lunch that we we ate while driving. We motored on into PA and stopped at the Flying J in New Milford for fuel. Diesel was $3.299/gallon, which works out to $0.87/litre. Add in exchange rate and there isn't much difference between diesel prices in PA and Ottawa. We are expecting the cost of diesel to go down the farther south we go. Regular unleaded was around $2.89/gallon with some selling for less than that in places. If memory serves, we were paying over $3.00/gallon in Florida last winter, so prices have definitely come down.

We arrived at the Thousand Trails park in Hershey, PA around 6:45 pm. We set up quickly and had a nice supper before calling it a night. Our Bounder performed flawlessly and we averaged about 8.4 mpg towing our Saturn, so I can't claim about that. We are here for only one night and hpe to be on the road by 10 am tomorrow morning. The park closes for the season at noon on Sunday. Lots of people in the park but it is so big, that finding a vacant 30 amp spot wasn't a problem.

The on duty ranger told us that Allen Mattson is working here as a ranger. We met Allen and his wife, Ida, while staying at TTN Peace River. Hoping to see them briefly before we pull out tomorrow morning.

Time for a little shut eye. Tomorrow should be a 6 hour drive on into Chesapeake Bay if all goes well.

Sorry no pictures for you today.