Fire and Dynamite in Corry, PA!

This morning I am posting from the Harecreek Campground in Corry, PA. We have a gorgeous campsite with lots of grass and a shade tree.  We arrived last night around 5pm.  What took so long?  Well, we did not leave on Sunday until around 7pm, so we drove to the Poconos and decided to stop for dinner. As good luck would have it, there were fireworks and live music going when we arrived. Chili's was still open so we went in to have some food and they gave us what turned out to be the best seat in the house.  We were next to a window that was situated perfectly for watching the fireworks.  After dinner we kept going until Danville, PA where we stopped for the night at a motel.  I must stop here and do some shameless bragging; the dog has been amazingly well behaved on this trip. I was worried that his stomach would be upset and he would bark too much.  His tummy is a bit upset (he didn't want to eat too much the first two days), but he has been very well behaved and has kept the barking to a minimum. He is very curious about every new site we go to, and of course we have been taking him with us  everywhere we go.  He was facinated by the fireworks in the Poconos, the noise startled him at first, but watching colors explode all over the sky made it worth it for him. He couldn't take his eyes off them.

Camping at Harecreek in Corry, PA

Look at all this shade!

We continued our drive through the Pennsylvania Wilds yesterday--which I wish we had some time to explore. The PA Wilds really do have a lot of interesting things to see, and unfortunately we just barreled on through to get up to Corry.  We ate a quick dinner last night after arriving and then headed over to my sister Nancy's house to hang out by a giant bonfire and my nephew Vince set off a bunch of firecrackers.  The kids loved it.  Some of the fireworks were homemade. Charlie reminded Vince, "you know dude, if you had say 5 of these things and strapped them to your jacket, people would get the wrong idea..."  Despite all of the exploding noises, after the dog had a chance to get a good sniff of everyone, he settled right down and didn't make a sound all night. After every single bang Claire shouted "That was so awesome!"

We ended the night with some of the worst ghost stories ever told followed by some of the worst riddles ever posed.  A huge thank you to Nancy, Bernie, Vince, Gina and baby Luca for having us over for a visit. The kids will remember that night at Aunt Nancy's for a very long time!

We are here in Corry for another night. We are going to visit my parents today and we are grilling beef ribs for dinner and there will probably be some swimming in the pool.  We are still debating what to do next.  We had been planning the Wisconsin Dells, but we found out online that it just a bunch of waterparks and there is no hiking in the actual Dells (which are a series of glacially formed limestone canyons--which is what we would actually want to see.)  So the decision that has to be made is this: do we stop in the Dells anyway since it is midway and spend a few days and camp, or do we just stop midway somewhere between here and South Dakota for the night an then just head there? There is also the issue of the weather, there are both storms and fire outwest which we want to avoid.  I'll keep you posted.