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07.06.08
Pennsylvania
We’ve travelled from Ohio to Pennsylvania
today, mostly on the freeways.
The last part
of the day was driving on smaller local
roads through Gettysburg.
There’s so much more to see on roads like this.
Tomorrow we’ll
be sightseeing around
Gettysburg, the day after, the
Harley Davidson factory.
Tonight we are staying at the camping
ground
in the Codorus State Park. It’s a lovely place.
I’ve heard lots of different birdcalls but it’s
difficult
to see who’s actually making what
call. I must be missing the noise of parrot
squawking because I bought a toy
parrot
today that talks and squawks. I knew I
couldn’t go too long without
a bird ‘fix’.
Today being a Saturday there have been a lot
of people out enjoying their weekend.
The
sport fields have been full of kids playing
baseball and I even saw one field where
there were a few games of soccer
going
on.
Harleys are a very common sight here of course
and today there seem to
have been more than
usual. It’s seems normal to me now to see
riders wearing no leathers (it’s so hot) and no
helmets. It looks like an awesome way to
keep
cool in this heat but I’m not sure
about the bugs stuck in the teeth!
I’ve been surprised at how little livestock I’ve
seen since
being here. Most of the farming
seems to be cropping. Today was the first
decent sized herd of cows I’ve seen
since
being here, apart from the poor cattle I saw
in Texas. I think I could count the number of
sheep I’ve
seen on my fingers. I’ve seen
more goats than sheep. Yesterday we
even saw some Bison on an
ordinary farm!
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