Septemper 7th

THE WEATHER: Perfect for traveling other than a little warm. We used the air conditioning for the 2nd time this summer. High’s in the 80’s

THE DISTANCE: 443 miles to Bellefonte, PA. Staying at the KOA

So we said goodbye to Uncle Charlie and got on our way by 9:00. We wanted to cover some miles today and again tomorrow to hopefully make it back for Christen Shiebler’s wedding on Saturday. So far it’s looking pretty good. We are finally getting back into some familiar looking hilly territory with lots of trees. As we drove through the Allegheny mountain range and climbed 1,000 foot inclines the RV is once again huffing and puffing. In spite of the distance it continues to do well. I think it may get us all the way home!

So it’s beginning to look a lot more like home. The traffic and congestion and Eastern uptight attitude is unfortunately looking way too familiar also. We drove through 3 states today; Ohio, West Virginia & Pennsylvania. It’s funny how out west you can drive for 2 days and still be in the same state but out East you can drive one day and go through 3 states!

Holding to a family tradition created when the kids started going off to camp or sporting events by themselves, We would ask them 3 questions: 1) on a scale from 1 to 10 how would you rate your event? 2) What was the best thing that happened? 3) What was the worst thing that happened?

So Tonight, we asked ourselves the same 3 questions.

Here’s Gary’s answers:

1) 9.5.… The King Salmon fishing could have been better
2) The best thing was catching a chum salmon. (is anyone surprised by these answers?)
3) The time in Sterling when the RV kept dieing and Gary couldn’t figure out what it was and it was late.

Debbie’s answers:

1) 9.5.… The weather could have been better
2) The best thing was seeing bears in Hyder, running after and catching big fish in the river
3) While in Soldotna, carrying 3 heavy fish to Gary to be filleted, I had a pretty bad fall. That story didn’t make it to the blog.