Yes, I know Lancaster PA is not on the way to Niagara Falls from anywhere in Ohio. The journey is the best part!
Yes, I know Lancaster PA is not on the way to Niagara Falls from anywhere in Ohio. The journey is the best part!
Driving from SW Ohio to Niagara Falls for our 10th anniversary.
Taking the scenic route - no interstates or highways.
Our scenic route yesterday took us to:
The first traffic light (sort of... the one-room museum that has it on display is, of course, closed on the weekend.) (We took pix through a window.)
A dam on a huge lake, with a spillway blasting a zillion gallons of recent rain water every second down a huge chute.
A water tower shaped like an apple.
A pink elephant statue.
A mini-museum of Shoney's Big Boy.
A lot of side trips on some of the unimproved roads in the Appalachian foothills in Eastern West Virginia.
Some amazing food from a food truck in... who knows... near one of our stops.
A tire recycling center (we think that's what it was) that is roughly 30 acres of nothing but huge tires from heavy equipment. Cooler than it sounds.
And a delicious late supper at a bed and breakfast that just happened to show up by the road (thanks to the chef for sticking around just for us... we tipped well.)
This morning we're heading out to Shippensburg PA (long story) then to Lancaster PA (longer story) then off to Punxsutawney, then going to stand on top of a 300-foot platform on top of a collapsed aqueduct in the Allegheny mountains. Maybe, if we make it that far today. It depends on finding roads from here (Sutton WV, I believe) to Shippensburg. I'm thinking about taking county roads up to Somerset PA and taking the interstate through a few tunnels toward Hagerstown, but who knows... we may find some better (read "gravel and mud") roads going over rather than through, we're on no time table.
We're opened to suggestions!
Driving from SW Ohio to Niagara Falls for our 10th anniversary.
Taking the scenic route - no interstates or highways.
Our scenic route yesterday took us to:
The first traffic light (sort of... the one-room museum that has it on display is, of course, closed on the weekend.) (We took pix through a window.)
A dam on a huge lake, with a spillway blasting a zillion gallons of recent rain water every second down a huge chute.
A water tower shaped like an apple.
A pink elephant statue.
A mini-museum of Shoney's Big Boy.
A lot of side trips on some of the unimproved roads in the Appalachian foothills in Eastern West Virginia.
Some amazing food from a food truck in... who knows... near one of our stops.
A tire recycling center (we think that's what it was) that is roughly 30 acres of nothing but huge tires from heavy equipment. Cooler than it sounds.
And a delicious late supper at a bed and breakfast that just happened to show up by the road (thanks to the chef for sticking around just for us... we tipped well.)
This morning we're heading out to Shippensburg PA (long story) then to Lancaster PA (longer story) then off to Punxsutawney, then going to stand on top of a 300-foot platform on top of a collapsed aqueduct in the Allegheny mountains. Maybe, if we make it that far today. It depends on finding roads from here (Sutton WV, I believe) to Shippensburg. I'm thinking about taking county roads up to Somerset PA and taking the interstate through a few tunnels toward Hagerstown, but who knows... we may find some better (read "gravel and mud") roads going *over* rather than through, we're on no time table.
We're opened to suggestions!
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