Monday April 18th 2016

After 3 days of touring Washington DC, I was ready to get on my way north. A bunch of little things conspired against me so I didn’t get underway until 10:30 about an hour later than planned. My travel day ended about 3:30 in the North East corner of Pennsylvanian at the Delaware Water Gap KOA.

I really enjoyed my stop in DC. Catching up with the changes to the Smithsonian and the memorials on the mall is fun to do every few years. I could have spent another couple of days but would have had to take a down day in there to re-energize. I may stop on my way back south later in the year. Who knows, my plans are formed in Jello. All of the picture I took can be found in the Google Photos shared album Washington DC April 2016.

It was a great day weather wise but not that great of a travel day. I needed to buy gas today. I started the day with a quarter tank which is the point I don’t like to go below. All of the stations near the campground were typical urban stations; small and next to impossible to get the big motorhome in and out of. Using google maps satellite view I identified two good locations on my path north. The first was about 15 miles away and the second almost 60. I don’t know the accuracy of the gas gauge near the bottom of the tank so I really wanted to stop at the station 15 miles up the road.

The construction gods didn’t let me succeed. The exit I needed was right in an area under construction and I was concentrating on maneuvering through the zone. I missed the exit for the nearer gas station. I was a little tense for the next 45 miles as I watched for any other good opportunity. The second station I had scoped out on google was north of Baltimore. It proved to have easy access but not the best price. Price is not a variable access is all that matters.

The roads in Maryland and Pennsylvania are not the greatest and the hills of the northeast are starting to come into play. The stuff inside the RV really bounced around today. Tomorrow will be more of the same in New York and Connecticut.

Site 66 at the Delaware Water Gap KOA not quite under the power lines but close.

Flowering tree with the buds about to open at my site. Note that the bigger trees in the background haven’t started to bud yet.

I’m about 200 miles further north than last night. The foliage on the trees is not as far along. The big Oak trees are still almost bare and the buds on the smaller flowering trees are just starting to breakout. My guess is there will be even less foliage tomorrow night.