After Dutch Wonderland we took a trip west with my sister to Pittsburgh. Our first stop was to visit with our friends Adam and Lindsay. It’s a tight squeeze to get 4 adults and a little kid in our micro RV but we made it because we’re all good friends.
Yum! Sweet FROG Frozen Yogurt (Picture by Lindsay)
Hanging out in the camper with Lindsay and Adam
We toured around the city with Lizze. We rode a Gateway Clipper for an hour tour of Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers (Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio).
Underway on the boat
This big building is One PPG Place
The point
Pittsburgh
Sully fell asleep on the clipper boat ride
The view of Point State Park and downtown
Walking through Pittsburgh
We also helped Lizze pack up some stuff to take back home to our parent’s house to store while she downsizes into a Washington DC apartment for her new job.
After Pittsburgh, we drove back east and visited with my family at their cabin near Cowans Gap State Park. We rumbled the camper down the narrow dirt road that leads to the cabin and had just enough space to turn around and park at a good level spot. We had a campfire, the kids splashed down in the creek like my sister, cousins and I did when we were younger. Luckily the weather was really nice and we didn’t need to plug in for air conditioning.
Sully and Olivia playing in the creek. Olivia loves the creek and got Sully to get his feet wet.
Hanging in the creek behind the cabin at Cowans Gap State Park with my cousin, Amy and her daughters
After the cabin we stopped back in Loganville for a few days.
Playing with Legos in the camper
With Lizze outside Mom and Dad’s
On a walk at Nixon Park in Jacobus, PA
Looking at minnows at Nixon Park in Jacobus, PA
Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my coffee!
Cheers! Coffee in the morning
Checking out Grandma Ness’s yard sale chairs
Movie time in the basement with Nana
Our next stop was Madison County, Virginia to visit with Uncle Derald and Aunt Tammy. We arrived on Friday night and enjoyed catching up and talking about our trip and new RV. They have a 5th wheel trailer for traveling and a toy hauler camper that has a horse area in the back.
I wanted to change the oil in the RV while we were there, so I backed Astraea Mobile down the driveway to get down to the lower driveway where the jack and oil changing tools were. While backing up, I crunched our ladder in to an overhanging tree and smashed the ladder. Ouch. Derald helped me pull the ladder off and seal everything up with silicon sealant. I got the oil changed and the filter replaced.
No more ladder on the back of the camper
The damage to the little tree
Tammy and Derald live out in farm country Virginia and that weekend was the Madison County Tractor Pull. What better way to spend a wild Saturday night than at the local school watching a bunch of tricked out tractors and trucks try and pull a heavily loaded sled. The country folk, fried food, and smell of diesel smoke made for a great evening. I felt a bit out of place in my board shorts and flip flops, but had a great time.
Revving up and getting ready to go
At the Madison tractor pull with Tammy and Derald
A big tractor at the start of it’s pull
A big tractor at the end of it’s pull
The next day we went to church in the morning and went swimming in the afternoon.
Swimming at Tammy and Derald’s
Swimming!
Sully had fund hanging out in the pool at Tammy and Derald’s