First 24 hours at Penn Wood Airstream Park
Finally! Tuesday morning we managed to get out the door, and head off to Penn Wood Airstream Park, leaving around 11:30 or so.
I had decided to head up route 66 (no, not THAT one), because it seemed like that would be the most straightforward way to get here, since 66 goes right past the entrance to the park. I found all the resources I needed to get a google maps route into our Magellan eXplorist 500 GPS.
We managed to get here, but there isn’t a checkbox in google maps that says “minimize hills”, so there were times that we were in first gear, going about ten miles per hour. We’re going back a different way…
We arrived at PWAP around 2 pm, and were greeted by the nicest camp hosts you’d ever want to meet. Unhitching went off without… well, you know.
I had some problems opening the gray and black water tank valves, but with some WD-40, that was fixed (somewhat).
After the unhitching, we left Alec at the camper to do some important setup tasks (hooking up the XBOX360) while the rest of us went to the Wal-Mart to get the groceries that we didn’t think would survive the trip. On leaving the store, we were greeted to a downpour that lasted until just after we had it all unloaded.
Cam and Kaley made some friends with (the only other) family with children, and spent the remainder of the day riding bikes and fishing in the pond.
The next day was pretty uneventful. We had a birthday cake for Alec, the gray water tank backed up into the tub again (briefly; I didn’t have the valve open enough…), and the kids played in the stream and playground.
Ironically, despite being two hours north on Pittsburgh, there are people here from Latrobe, more people from Latrobe that live in Greensburg now, and people from North Huntingdon.