Bushkill Falls

Bushkill Falls

Friday September 15, 2023

This morning we got up and moving pretty quickly, as Jim was wanting to leave as early as possible. That's a normal thing for him though. 

What a great night boondocking at Cabela's.

We said goodbye to our neighbors for the night from Iowa. Jim had to back out of the spot we were in. No way he could go around this truck.

 Worked out fine even asked us if we were okay. Found out he was picking up a huge boat from Cabela's.

We left and headed back towards the Poconos in Pennsylvania. To Timothy Lake South, Thousand Trails that we were at with the class C a good 6 weeks ago.

 Once we arrived, the weather was great, we got situated and found a pretty nice spot. Didn't do much else today, but he had a few beer's, it did rain a little later.

 Saturday September 16, 2023 

Today we decided to go tour the waterfalls, we left after lunch. Went to Bushkill Falls there's eight waterfalls there within walking distance. You can do it a short walk or the longer one to see all the falls. I took my own personal survey and started asking people how hard of a walk it is. Wanted to make sure Jim was up for it. We almost decided not to, they said it was a lot of steps. I gave him the choice and he said let's go. So proud of him for pushing himself a little.

 I went back to the truck and took off my jeans and put on comfortable pants. We put on our hiking shoes, grabbed  more water and off we went.

 The only thing we didn't know is they charged you to walk. For senior citizens we paid $19 each. I really didn't want to, but we decided, why not. The walk didn't take as long as expected, a good 2 hours for us.

 Before we left there was a display with the Indians and artifacts. 

The Falls were beautiful. 

I talked to so many people doing my survey, I lost count. So as people would pass us they would say, oh you made it. I kept offering to take people pictures. One group was from Ireland. Once we passed each other the second time, I asked of all places, why are you in Pennsylvania. They were there to see relatives, so I said to their grandparents, oh you're the crazy people that live in Pennsylvania in the winter. They laughed and agreed and we all kept moving. 

I so enjoy talking with everyone it was a great beautiful walk. 

You saw this picture on the bottom with stacked rocks. We noticed there was a lot of people who couldn't speak or read English. We watched one family look at the sign, and then they started to stack rocks. I told Jim they needed to put a red circle with a line through it. Cuz that's a Universal symbol for all.  We actually spoke with them and told them why you're not supposed to do it. They quickly knocked it over and called the kids away. 

Once we got back I told the security guard, that was making sure people didn't walk in for free. I told him the story that they needed to do the red line with the circle. Also told him how I picked up trash.

The waterfalls were called bridal veil,  Lookout main falls, eight in all. 

Once we left we stopped to get Jim a six pack of beer. We took a little drive around in the truck before we went back to the site. We didn't get the golf cart out for only a couple days. Saw these deer on our drive.  Above pic

 Got back to the RV, glad dinner was ready as we were pretty hungry by then. What a great day 

Sunday September 17, 2023. 

Today is moving day back to Hershey Thousand Trails. As always Jim wanted to leave ASAP. 9:00 a.m. was his goal I think we left at 9:15.

Today was only a two and a half hour drive. Jim wanted to go different than the Garmin RV wanted him to. Since this was a rare occasion he actually knew the way, we went his way. I asked if he had planned a bathroom / diesel lunch break. He said he didn't. We were so close, but ready for all three.

 He said there was a Pilot in Pine Grove, so we got off the exit. And realized the Pilot they advertised was closed. In this area we know so well, and there's no where to turn around. So we had to continue on and we knew that the Pine Grove KOA was just up the road.

 A long way when you have to go. LOL. So he ended up going there pulling into their, luckily huge parking lot. And getting it done. 

Then we continued on, the clouds

looked angry and very weirdly shaped, it was about that time it started to rain.

 So we had about an hour drive in the rain total.

 We arrived at Thousand Trails Hershey a little later than Jim wanted. There was 41 rigs coming in today, we found out. Found a spot way in the back, but the internet's terrible. It cleared up and and was nice later. But eventually it did rain again. 

Once it cleared up a little we took off to go see his mom. We had a nice visit and they had pizza while we were there. Jim had a couple slices but we had planned to go for chinese. So we stopped on the way home. Now we'll have a lot for leftovers tomorrow. So funny being back.