After a great time in Boston, we headed to Croton Point Park in Croton-On-The–Hudson, NY. We were supposed to meet up here with our traveling companions, Dave and Myra Snowise, but Myra had a doctor appointment in Connecticut, so we just spent two nights here by ourselves. Ellyn did meet up with a friend for dinner one night, but otherwise, it was just a couple of relaxing days. Geoff was able to get a belt for the dash A/C compressor and got that working again. It was a good thing because the weather jumped suddenly into Summer. The day we arrived, the high temperature was in the 60s and the next day it was in the 80s. The forecast for the weather there and as we travel westward in the Northeast is for this heat to continue, so the A/C will be needed.
We left Croton and headed across the Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River to New Jersey and a meet up with Dave and Myra. There is a huge construction job going on on the Hudson to replace the bridge. It is quite impressive. Our dashcam caught much of it as we drove along. We’ve been having fun with the dashcam. Geoff has captured all but one border crossing (missed Rhode Island when the memory card filled up. Now we make sure it is empty at the start of each day).
We arrived at the meet up spot, had lunch, then found out Dave and Myra were just leaving home. So we sat in the motorhome with the generator and A/C on and watched TV. Finally we got the call they were almost there, so Geoff went out by the 
road to wave them in and show where we were parked. We then had some ice cream at the Cold Stone Creamery and discussed where we would try to get to before night. We picked a campground about 2 hours away, called ahead to make sure they had room, and headed out. When we arrived, we had time to set up, have a nice dinner (Myra cooked, we opened up our table and put out settings. It was relaxing after a long day and everyone got some sleep. End, Day 1.
The next morning we were on the road about 9:30 and headed for our first site seeing, the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, PA. A sad place but very well done. They have a big visitor’s center and a wall with the names of all of the victims near the crash site. They have planted a huge grove of trees along the approach and, in about 20 years, they will be magnificent.
We stayed at the memorial a little long and had a long drive afterward to get to our next stop near Cleveland, OH. The road to and from the memorial was the Lincoln Highway, US 30. This highway goes up and over the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania. This was a job for the motorhomes, although going down is a bit hairier than going up. At one point, just before we turned back onto the main highway, we saw signs warning trucks from driving any further on US 30. After we got back to the highway, we still had about 3 hours of driving to do, but we powered through. The campground in Ohio is in a State Park, so we only have 20 amps of electric and had to make sure we had plenty of water onboard. We will only be here for two nights though before moving on to Indiana. Memorial Day weekend is here and we are getting patriotic!
