September 20, 2008 - Tunkhannock, PA

We traveled today for nearly 8 hours. That’s a long drive in the truck and pulling a trailer. Eight hours isn’t near so bad in a car as it is in the truck. The drive was even harder on the rough roads we were on all day. We knew we would be on two lane roads all day, but they were really rough, which sometimes causes the trailer to jerk. Needless to say, Larry was exhausted by the end of the day which was complicated by trying to find a campground. We were traveling on US route 6 (Avenue of the Grand Army of the Republic) – two lane the whole way which was supposed to be scenic. Most of it was scenic, the first couple of hours we drove thru the Allegheny National Forest, which was beautiful. Then we followed the Susquehana River the rest of the way. Nearly all of it was in a valley between some minor mountains, though some of it was up and down over them (including a couple of long 6% grades). About 3:00 we decided to change our original route and started looking for a campground. We saw signs showing one a mile or so off the road. We drove into it, thru an extremely narrow and winding road, got there, no one was there at the office. They had a note on the door, saying to pick out a site and they would be back later. It looked pretty run down, and there were maybe 8 or 10 trailers in the whole place, none of which looked like they had moved in the last few years. We drove thru it, past one bunch of people sitting outside their camper who looked like they came straight out of “Deliverance”, and we drove out and on down the road.

We arrived here, in Tunkhannock, about 4:15 or 4:30. We’re about 30 miles west of Scranton, PA. We will drive about 6-7 hours tomorrow to arrive at the Minuteman Campground, near Boston. We plan to make this our base for a week while we tour the area.

Needless to say, we didn’t have any side trips today, it was all steady driving. We came this route because of something I had seen on the internet about Towanda, PA. When we got there I couldn’t remember what it was I had wanted to see, still haven’t remembered. May never find it again . . . . .