I've been having this idea nudging me for a couple of days now. So I have been through a lot of states and lived in a few. But what I know or remember of a state I'll post, then anyone that has lived there or visited could make their post about a state.
I've been thinking a lot about Pennsylvania as I was traveling in that part of the country a lot the Spring and Summer of 1976, The bi-centennial year. I remember that the state was divided up into 13 or more historic sections. And if you visited 10 or 12 of those sections in a year, you received a specially minted 1776-1976 coin. I did the number of areas in less that two weeks. (I was married to a traveling sales man living out of car and Holiday Inns.)
I remember seeing State College and thinking what a beautiful town it was. And Allentown, Lancaster, and some of the others. I visited the church basement that the Liberty bell was hidden in during the Revolutionary War. I believe Lancaster had the nations oldest indoor market, and I remember buying one of those huge cuke sized garlic dill pickles and nibbling on it while I walked around town while hubby was in a business meeting.
And the rolling hills were beautiful.
Philadelphia I did not like. It gave me the unsafe feeling. I remember instead of walking around town, that I stayed in a McDonalds's parking lot and even when the school bus of police officers came for lunch I didn't feel any safer. Just a creepy feeling. We also were passing the hotel that had the Legionnaires disease break out the next week. That was creepy in retrospect. And I remember that there was a garbage pick up strike going on, so there were garbage bag hills on the sides of some roads.
But Pittsburg I loved. I felt safe there, and while he was in business meetings I was parked at Ft. Pitt Park area. I walked down to the point where the 4 rivers meet, and read the plaques about them.
I just really liked Pennsylvania.
Now - your turn. What do you know of or have seen of Pennsylvania?
I've been thinking a lot about Pennsylvania as I was traveling in that part of the country a lot the Spring and Summer of 1976, The bi-centennial year. I remember that the state was divided up into 13 or more historic sections. And if you visited 10 or 12 of those sections in a year, you received a specially minted 1776-1976 coin. I did the number of areas in less that two weeks. (I was married to a traveling sales man living out of car and Holiday Inns.)
I remember seeing State College and thinking what a beautiful town it was. And Allentown, Lancaster, and some of the others. I visited the church basement that the Liberty bell was hidden in during the Revolutionary War. I believe Lancaster had the nations oldest indoor market, and I remember buying one of those huge cuke sized garlic dill pickles and nibbling on it while I walked around town while hubby was in a business meeting.
And the rolling hills were beautiful.
Philadelphia I did not like. It gave me the unsafe feeling. I remember instead of walking around town, that I stayed in a McDonalds's parking lot and even when the school bus of police officers came for lunch I didn't feel any safer. Just a creepy feeling. We also were passing the hotel that had the Legionnaires disease break out the next week. That was creepy in retrospect. And I remember that there was a garbage pick up strike going on, so there were garbage bag hills on the sides of some roads.
But Pittsburg I loved. I felt safe there, and while he was in business meetings I was parked at Ft. Pitt Park area. I walked down to the point where the 4 rivers meet, and read the plaques about them.
I just really liked Pennsylvania.
Now - your turn. What do you know of or have seen of Pennsylvania?
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The hill at the end of our road is so steep, school buses are forbidden to take it.
