Through Pennsylvania

Today started out hazy and cool. I managed to snap a very quick picture of Megan and Abigail as they were heading off to school. Doug walks with them to the bus.

Once we had everything together for the trip, we took time to have English muffins and fruit for breakfast and a conversation with Becky.

We loaded the car and took off heading east about mid morning. As we were driving, we did see fields, barns, white fences, cows and, yes, a clothesline. We were going through a small town when we spotted the beautiful quilts hanging over the railing. We did a quick turn back so that we could take a picture.

A little further down the road, we stopped for burgers at Red's Diner. It looked a little like Mel's Diner from the TV show! There were even juke boxes on all of the tables. The burgers were pretty good. The onion rings were not what we were expecting and it was easy not to eat them.

Mid afternoon, we stopped at Dunkin' Donuts for coffee and, of course, donuts!!! We bought hot cups. They are very nice, but it took me all afternoon, and Earla's help to figure out how to close mine. I was about ready to give it to Jasmine -- my five year old granddaughter. She surely would not have such problems. It works now, though.

We were headed to Jim Thorpe, PA as we'd heard it was a great town for shopping. We drove through Jim Thorpe and saw nowhere to stay and realized we were out of town and on the wrong road. I managed to get us going somewhat in the right direction, but it was Earla's cool head and map reading that finally got us back on the right road.

We stopped in Stroudsburg, PA, just across the river from New Jersey. The hotel is adequate. We found a restaurant named "Everyone's' which is in an old Victorian house -- vegetarian and international. The menu was way too long for us, but we managed to find something. Earla had shrimp, veggies and rice. I had chicken, veggies and rice. The meat was mixed with the veggies which were el dente, and the rice was a mixture that was delicious. It was very good, but much more than we could eat. While we were waiting for our food, there were a number of cookbooks that we could look through. Some were quite old. Earla liked hers so much that she bought it!

Tomorrow, we'll cross the Delaware into New Jersey.