Richmond to Stroudsburg PA

Made it to PA without a hiccup...  We got up at 0400, good grief. Gave the neighborhood something to watch as they woke up.  But got the rig off the lawn with no problem.  Nice easy day driving down here.  It was cool watching the changing scenery as we saw less and less snow all the way to Albany NY where it disappeared.

I am so glad to be away from ice!  I fell again while loading the truck.  More stinking ice.  At least I didn’t hurt anything this time.

Campsite at Pocono Vacation Park in Stroudsburg

At the truck stop in Ft Anne NY.

Dawn Launch tomorrow!

We got the right part delivered and installed today, the weather is cold but clear along the route so everything looks good to get out of Dodge tomorrow.  Everything that can freeze is in the camper or the truck.  Tomorrow morning we just have the food and some last minute things to load.  Hitch up and GO!

The truck part came in Thursday, I went over to get it installed and... it was the wrong part.  The warranty company insists on sending their own parts and sent the wrong one.  There are two nitrous sensors in the truck, just different length of electric cable.  Of course they sent the short one where they needed the long one.  Reordered the part and hoped for Friday delivery.  It id not come in yesterday so that will be a Monday fix (yeah, if it comes in-but it should).  So now it looks like A Tuesday departure.  That's a much better day to start out for the weather anyway.  It is supposed to be good all week all the way to the NC coast.
In the meantime my shoulder is getting better by the day.  I have recovered more range of motion in some directions than I expected.  Now I don't mean full speed or full strength, just the ability to move the arm.  It's just the outward rotation that's taking time.

It's Wednesday and we have a few inches of wet snow with more coming.  Maybe Sunday!
In the meantime my truck wants one more repair part.  That should be in Friday.  And last night I fell on the ice coming out of the camper and wrenched my right shoulder.  Went to the doc today and had it diagnosed as a damaged rotator cuff.  Dang it.  Very limited range of motion and painful when I try to go beyond a point.  She gave me a bunch of PT exercises to work it out.  If those don't do it I'll be finding a PT somewhere down the road.
So if we get the truck fixed Friday then we might get out on Sunday.  As it turns out once the snow is done here there will be more down south.  Forecast for a few inches of snow this weekend around Richmond VA!
We'll see!

Looking forward to another great trip this winter.  Current plan, or is it "hope" is to leave town on Wednesday.  IF the weather holds.  There is that snowstorm wandering around northeast of us that is uncertain about its course right now.  Thursday may be better.  Still watching several different weather sites.

Back home again!

Arrived home this afternoon at about 3:30.  Ground was bare and firm enough to drive on.  So the camper is parked in it's normal spot on the back lawn, ready for unpacking, repacking and the next trip in 2-1/2 weeks.

It was another nice drive on a nice day.  Really a pretty good ending to a fine trip.  I have taken a liking to the drive on US 209 along the Delaware River in PA on the NJ border.  Most of it is in the Del Water Gap National Forest.

12,265 miles, 255 hours of drive time, 16 states from Jan. 10 to April 11.

I have added a lot of photos to the past few days, back to 4/5 with a lot of bird photos from the wetland park in Gainesville.

Last camp in PA

Back in the yard in Vermont!

Pocono Mountain Vacation park, Stroudsburg PA, last night of the trip!

Nice day for a drive.  So, the weather was beautiful even if it was cool.  Traffic in Richmond was bad; took a half hour longer than necessary but a half hour is not too bad.  We got off I-95 in Fredericksburg VA to take US 15 north to Harrisburg PA.  We like that route and have used it a few times.  Mostly 4 lane but going through some towns.  Kind of like Rt 7 south of Rutland in VT.  Not heavy traffic; you can get around well, stop for fuel and get back into traffic again.  However I would not try to stop on the left side of the road.  More traffic approaching Allentown, going slow, and a fast but dense crowd north of there.

Some pretty nice scenery along this route.  Some big impressive houses that were too far into the trees to be photographed, I wonder why.  And a few very old houses that clearly had survived the Civil War.  Lots of signs for various battlefields and museums.  We really could spend some time around northern Virginia.

This is the same campground and the same site we had on Jan. 10.  I believe they keep this site for one-nighters.  This park, like so many of them, have a lot of seasonal or permanent residents.  As we walk around there are several trailers that have rooms built onto them.

And this place has WiFi.  Albeit a very slow system.  Probably overloaded with users.  But I'll try to get some photos included.

No. Virginia horse farm

Our last campsite