Tuesday 25th October – When Ruth got carried away with the gimmicky stuff!

Our first Good Sam park near Philadelphia - with water feature!

Example of what a full hook-up looks like - attached to electricity, water and a drain outlet

So, I told you about the over-sized spectacles in our Atlas.  I happened to notice that today, by taking in a slight detour of our planned day through Pennsylvania, we could go and visit a house in the shape of a giant shoe!  Now, who wouldn’t want to see that?! Not only that, it is so famous that even the road is named after it - Shoe house Road in York! Also, just past that was Gettysburg, home of Lincoln’s famous address (speech rather than house!) so we could visit the battlefield there as well for a bit more culture whilst making ground.

Well, this is a classic example of not having gained an appreciation of the size of this country yet or not taking the scale of our map into consideration…. Or both in fact!  What could have been an easy, low mileage day, turned into a trek and by the time we’d reached the shoe and got our photos it was clear that Gettysburg was sadly a drive too far.  If we'd known we could only do one we should've probably gone to Gettysburg... but then again.....

Who wouldn't want to drive extra miles to see this first-hand?!

To add to the annoyance at myself for coming up with this hair-brained scheme the traffic getting around Washington was horrendous.  This delayed our arrival at the next campsite until 7pm when it was pitch black, thus making the job of finding our pitch more challenging.  Note to self; The crazy, oversized spectacles would have to be reserved for when we were literally driving right by them and I would leave more of the nagivation (the proper spelling of navigation) to Simon!