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Obidiah is sitting on the sign, above the "n" in "Thousand" (small, I know, but will try and do better as we travel around; try blowing it up to X-Lge size)

Thousand Trails Hershey, PA.  While RP was nice, we planed to spend a couple weeks at TT’s Hershey campground; we'd been up there for a long weekend years ago and found it a great park.  We were not disappointed – it’s still a very nice campground, with plenty of sites, and that huge swimming pool I mentioned.  We settled in quite nicely and spent a very relaxing two weeks – which I thoroughly enjoyed as my first two full weeks of retirement.  A guy could really get used to this! 

Our two sons, Kip and Jamie, and their families joined us on our last weekend for the Hershey Park experience.  Jamie and his family came up on Friday night and we spent Saturday at Hershey Chocolate World, which included a trolley tour of Hershey, a terrific 3-D movie about the history of chocolate and Mr. Hershey, and even a demo of chocolate candy making that included designing and making your own candy bar and wrapper.  Quite a treat and experience.  A big “Thank you” to Jamie and Lisa – we had a great time..as the photos below illustrate.

The Monkees: Ben, Luke, and Rayne

Grandma with son, Kip, and oldest grandchild, Skye; Skye and her very handsome PaPa, are in the photo at the right. 

Below is a photo of our youngest son, Jamie, about to be launched forward at about 200mph; I missed the actual "launch" of course.  Next to Jamie is another cute photo of our "Three Monkees" monkeying around for the camera.  Luke is such a "hugger."

               

Kip and our two granddaughters, Skye and Rayne, joined us on Sunday for a day at Hershey Park –and as I said, we had a great time. We said our goodbyes at the park in the late afternoon (very sad), and headed back to the TT campground to get the motorhome ready to leave early the next morning.


We departed the TT Hershey campground a little after 10am and picked up I-81 to head southwest to join with I-70.  Had a minor problem with the RV while at a rest stop just outside of Carlisle.  It took a call to Coach-Net roadside assistance and a conversation with Tech Support to get us on the road again.  Guess I would call the whole thing “operator error” on my part, but lesson learned, and we were on way again. We drove thru western MD and WV, and parts of PA, on I-70 and I-68 (well worth the trip… wonderful scenery, although lots of mountains…mileage for this leg of the trip for the Winnebago was 8.5mpg), and arrived at Spring Valley campground near Cambridge, Ohio, about 4:30pm.  This Mom-and-Pop campground is very nice; too bad we were only spending one night there. The $34 overnight cost was well worth the stop.  Next segment of the trip on next blog.