Category: Travel
Exploring the Pine Creek Gorge Area
We have been off the grid for awhile so we drove to Wellsboro, a lovely Victorian lumber town on historic US Highway 6. Wellsboro has lots of historic building and gas lights down the center of the main street. We walked around town noting that it was extremely quiet and many businesses closed at 3:00 pm on Saturday. There were three brightly painted pianos on the sidewalks inviting people to stop and play them.
We visited a sort of indoor micro-mall and had turkey salads for lunch. It was our first and only restaurant meal on this trip.
Next we explored some side roads near Pine Creek Gorge and visited Colton Point State Park which is on the opposite side of the creek from Leonard Harrison. Colton Point is a primitive campground and sites 21, 22 and 25 look suitable for a camper.
We went back to Leonard Harrison for the night and grilled bison burgers with camper potato salad for dinner.
The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania
Today we hiked down the Turkey Path Trail to the Pine Creek Trail at the bottom of the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania. We passed a nice waterfall on the way down.
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A Rainy Drive to Leonard Harrison State Park
Maiden Voyage: Waterfall Hike
We came to Ricketts Glen specifically to do the hike past 18 named waterfalls and numerous small drops and cascades. It is steep, rocky, there are a lot of stairs, and it’s glorious!
A yearling bear ran across the trail in front of us at the beginning of the hike so Dean set his bear bell loose to ring. We took our hiking poles and were glad of it.
We concluded the evening with a drive to buy firewood, a shower, more laundry, and dinner by the fire.
Maiden Voyage: Ricketts Glen State Park
Maiden Voyage: A Night at Poe Valley State Park
Maiden Voyage: Greenwood Furnace State Park
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La Tortuga Debuts at Mid-Atlantic Overland Festival
Two days after taking delivery of our new camper we headed out on our maiden voyage starting with the Mid-Atlantic Overland Festival. Thank goodness I am a compulsive packer and had almost everything we needed already staged in the house for loading in.
We had a Four Wheel Camper encampment next to the Mainline Overland vehicles and each of the five campers was a different model and vintage. La Tortuga was a big attraction which we gladly showed off when we were near it, which wasn’t often since we spent most of our time at workshops and visiting with other overlanders.
It was great to meet people of all ages with all kinds of vehicles and especially nice to spend time with other Four Wheel Camper owners.
We attended workshops on a variety of subjects including photography, personal safety, traveling with children, off-road driving, first aid, and self-rescue. There were more interesting workshops than we could attend which I consider to be a sign of a good event.
Each day started with great coffee and ended with happy hour, a speaker or live music and a bonfire. I was delighted that my film festival submission received many complements.
Many thanks to Mainline Overland and the Henwood family for hosting such a great event. We will definitely plan to attend again next year.
The Flatbed Camper: From RAM to La Tortuga the Glamper
We delivered our truck to Mainline Overland and left it for them to assemble the flatbed, camper and solar panel. They completed the work in time for us to pick it up and quickly pack for our maiden voyage to the Mid-Atlantic Overland Festival
What a transformation! Our pretty, new brown truck became La Tortuga the Glamper. It’s like a tiny house on wheels with infinitely more amenities than we are accustomed to.
Our cruising sailboats were both extremely minimalist as is camping with what you can check on an airplane or even from the back of our RAV4. Our Four Wheel Camper flatbed Hawk camper has flush mount sink and stove, refrigerator, heater, hot and cold pressure water, cassette toilet, dinette, inside and outside shower, tons of storage, 160 watts solar on the roof, all led lighting, and most lovely of all, a queen sized bed we can leave made up while we are traveling.
The Camper and Flatbed Arrive
Our Four Wheel Camper Hawk flatbed camper and Alum-Line aluminum flatbed arrived yesterday at Main Line Overland. Today we drove the truck up to their shop in West Chester Pennsylvania and left it for them to remove the existing bed and install the flatbed and camper.
The camper was sitting on a brown Unimog so we got to see how nice the color will look on our truck. We sat in the camper and looked in all the compartments imagining it on our own truck, in our driveway and living in it on the road.
The flatbed is very shiny, almost square, and light weight enough that I can lift one end.
Main Line Overland expects to finish installation by the end of next week when we will return to drive it home.
So much adrenaline is tiring so we decided to spend the night in West Chester. We ate yummy tacos and carne asada at La Rancherita. Tomorrow we will visit Longwood Gardens before returning to Maryland.
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Welcome to our Very Active Life. We are two boomers who have learned to maintain a level of fitness that enables us to continue our adventures such as trekking in the Himalayas and Andes and camping off-road in our truck.
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