Daily Archives: July 15, 2009
Goodbye Pennsylvania, Hello New York…
We left Gap, PA about 10:30 am heading north to Florida, NY, a small town about 45 miles northwest of New York City.
We will be here until at least the 26th of July. We’re staying here that long because our daughter, Brandi, and our granddaughter, Piper, will be flying up from Houston on Saturday, the 18th, to spend a week with us, exploring New York City.
Leaving Gap, we passed more of the neat farms that dot the Pennsylvania countryside.
Farm 1
Farm 2
And of course, the obligatory “Amish Buggy Crossing” sign.
We stopped in Flemington, NJ for about 114 gallons of diesel and I’m glad we did. We paid $2.37 a gallon, the best price we’ve seen in several months. But when we got here to New York, the best price we’ve seen has been $2.79 and the highest was $3.03.
We last filled up in North Carolina on June 20th and we went almost 900 miles on this last tank, not quite as good as usual, but we’ve been in a lot of hills since we filled up last, and that really cuts down on mileage.
Normally, we get about 9 to 9.5 mpg driving on the flat, but this time we got about 7.8 mpg.
We took a lot of back roads this trip and consequently spent more time going thru a lot of small towns, so our 190 mile trip took us about 5 and a half hours, but it was great scenery.
We pulled into Black Bear Campground about 4 pm. The office is at the bottom of a hill, and the campground is at the top of a hill…a very steep hill.
They told me to get a running start, but even then I wondered if I wasn’t going to have to coast back down and try it again. But we finally made it OK.
More tomorrow…
