Natural Bridge KOA to Hickory Run State Park PA
Thu 8 June
The drive this day wasn't nearly as bad. We left at about 9:30 and had an easy pull out of the "Kampground" onto the road, a short trip to I-81, and then we stayed there for a long, long time. The trip was only a little over five hours, or so it seemed, because we arrived shortly after 3pm.
Before all that excitement, we went from Virginia to West Virginia to some other state, Maryland maybe? and then into Pennsylvania. I missed most of the welcome signs, though.
The drive up through Pennsylvania was weird. A ridge of big mountains runs right down the center of the state, and after skirting them to the south for a long time, eventually I-81 turned due north and went over them. Pretty nice views up there. But it was mostly hazy, and the mountains stayed distant. Still, it was nice to see how much space there was where nobody was.
(I didn't expect that. I thought that once we left Virginia, it would be houses and manufacturing and cities lining the interstate all the rest of the way north. But it wasn't.)
The campground I chose (Hickory Run State Park) was basically a cleared field with a ring of campsites around the edges. They were created to be back-in sites, and so we had to unhook the jeep. But the builders could have put pull-thru sites in the same space and made our job easier.
Since we had to unhook the Jeep, we figured we might was well mosey on over to see The Boulder Field. I failed to navigate correctly to start with--having a hard time switching between a paper map with some very, very cryptic notations on it, and Google maps which didn't show the roads until I zoomed in to just the right degree of detail.
The Boulder Field was awesome. Even Ed was impressed. Our drive over there wound through little narrow roads in tall stands of trees, but when we arrived and stepped over to the field, the trees abruptly ended. I hope the pictures do it justice:
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