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Early to bed, early to rise.

Day One we drove until tired, not much beyond sunset. Am not sure of the hour but still early evening. Drove beyond last years cold sleep stopover. Had a full day to drive this time through. Warm balmy evening and subsequent morning as well.

Learning curve issues: internet connection and inverter.

I-84/I-81/I-80 into the Keystone State of Pennsylvania beyond Wilkes-Barre. One stretch of interstate just into Pennsylvania near dusk was awash in hunter’s orange. Hunters seemingly everywhere; this with vehicles all around traveling at 55 – 65 miles per hour. Hunters walking the roadway, their vehicles parked on the shoulder, standing by the side of the road with their quarry, in tree stands within sight of the interstate: all armed and at the ready. Way odd so close to the highway, but then again I am not a hunter. Maybe I might do the same with a camera?

Quite a bit of variability of interstate roadway surface conditions.

Between states?

Between budget cycles?

A sign of the state of our infrastructure?

A monochromatic morning and lowering skies heading west on I-80 in the northern tier of Pennsylvania. The low clouds and fog hid any sunrise over the rolling farmland. Further on lifting banks of clouds and clearing skies highlighted the well kept prosperous appearing farms in the rolling countryside of Centre County Pennsylvania. All back-dropped by the low mountain ridges of the Allegheny Mountains.

Centre County, one of my favorite places.

Alt Route 220 led us south to the borough of Unionville, Pennsylvania (2010 census of 291, markedly down from the 313 of 2000) for our annual breakfast pilgrimage to the Unionville Café. Multiple “Beware of Aggressive Drivers’ signs made us wonder aloud about the local drivers. Querying the locals in the Café cleared things up. Seems the truckers in their big rigs on PA Alt Route 220 are rabid drivers or at least ‘aggressive’ drivers.  A good breakfast meal was had at the Unionville Café: locally raised pork sausage meat cake featured prominently.

Notable and slightly odd Pennsylvania town, more correctly, borough names: Jersey Shore in the middle of the mountains of Pennsylvania miles from the ‘Jersey Shore’

(Jersey Shore was originally named Waynesburg by the two brothers, Reuben and Jeremiah Manning, who laid out the town circa 1785.^[3] Around the time that this was happening, a settlement arose on the eastern side of the West Branch Susquehanna River opposite Waynesburg. A rivalry developed between the two settlements, and those on the eastern shore began referring to the settlement on the western shore as the “Jersey Shore,” because the Manning family had relocated from New Jersey. The nickname became so fixed that in 1826 the original name of Waynesburg was officially abandoned and changed to Jersey Shore.^[4] )

that and Buckhorn, Snow Shoe and Mile Run.

Pleased to be traveling to places where we want to be, no where that we have to be!