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The river in the picture is the Ohio on the Ohio/West Virginia border.
The river in the picture is the Ohio on the Ohio/West Virginia border.Today started easily. We had time to be leisurely, so we sauntered down to the dining room in the hotel for breakfast. We were pleased to see hard boiled eggs. We enjoyed them with toasted bagels, orange juice and coffee and coffee.
We went back to the room and Earla called for directions. We took out the map and charted our course. Then we were ready to take off down the road once more.
As we were leaving the hotel, the bank board next door was blinking 44 degrees and 8:59. We drove north toward Maryland once more, which was just a few miles up the road. The distance across the state wasn't long here, so we were in Pennsylvania fairly soon.
During the day, we saw many of the sites we have been looking for in all of our journey. We saw a covered bridge, two clotheslines with clothes on them, white fences, horses, cows, corn fields and farm buildings. We, also, went through what was supposed to be orchard country in Pennsylvania. There were few trees that we saw, but there were a few fruit stands. We stopped at one and picked up some apples, pears and a quart of apple cider.
Our final destination for today was Portage, PA. Looking at the map, the roads coming into Portage appeared to be part of a spider web of roads. We only made one wrong turn and a turn around before we found the town, although there was much discussion about which road was which.
A few stops were made in town before we drove to Becky (Earla's niece on Ben's side), Doug, Megan and Abigail's house. We found the house easily with Doug's directions.
No one was home, so a friend of Becky's let us in. We found nibbles and settled in for a game of Scrabble, then another, then another. I had the lucky letter draws today.
Doug put chicken in the over to bake while he picked up the girls from the bus and rushed them around for after school activities.
When Becky came home, we enjoyed the delicious, moist baked chicken and freshly picked pears. For dessert, we savored a couple of pieces of vinarterta.... an Icelandic tart that Becky's grandmother used to make. It is four layers of cookie with a fruit spread between. This is cut into rectangles. YUMO!!!
Tuesday night meant NCIS. It is soon to bed. Tomorrow brings laundry and relaxation.
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When will you make the Irish tart for the 2 of us? You must have all kinds of things you may want to bake, cook, etc here at home. Love the pictures and your blog. Glad you can have some R and R before heading out on Thursday. Laurel Olson left off a air filter of sorts for me to use here at the house, I have it going and will return it Sunday hopefully. Airline tkts go up even more as of Nov.1st. Wish my dad could go somewhere warm but he is content being where he is during the holidays. Take care, hi to Earla. Love, Betty
ReplyDeleteOK, It's Wed. and I'm home again -- Aunt Martha is doing well. My 2 cats were quite lonesome - I've been gone a lot lately.
ReplyDeleteI was eager to read Sun. Mon. and Tues.'s blogs. I enjoyed reading all of them. Sounds like you planned to stay put today. I hope you relaxed and enjoyed.
Out of curiosity, were there any other women in the bar you went to the other night? Some "back country" towns have some pretty old ideas about a woman's "proper place." or Maybe you were too young to be served ? (smile)
That Icelandic dessert did sound yummy.