When I woke up on Friday I still had a half day to work.. but it sure didn't feel like it.
Till I sat down and organized what I absolutely had to get done. Quite a bit. No problem. I was motivated... Finally after tieing up some pesky customer issues and a few snafus setting my auto responder and voicemail away message I was finally out of there at 1 p.m.. damn, I was hoping to slip away between 11-11:30. Oh well.. I'm free and that's all that really matters! lol
I had an ambitious route and a realistic route mapped out, in several different navigators I should mention here, for my drive up to Wellsboro and my rendezvous with the Ladies.
I was on vacation, and wanted it to start right way.. so to that end I had planned an adventure right off. Why wait till I get to my first overnight destination to start things off right??
So my ambitious route included a stop at a Classic Roadside Attraction (in fact called Roadside America), the Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville, and then on up to Wellsboro taking a rather scenic route rather than the upper North East Extension and Rt 80.
I knew from the get go that the Brewery was a long shot. When I got out of the house at 1 p.m instead of 11:30 I killed that plan right quickly. Yo.
So off I went, heading north.
As you know I've been to Wellsboro many times, and I've taken the back route up as well as the turnpike. I don't really *need* the GPS to get there.. but it's new, and I had the stop planned along the way so I was using it. As previously mentioned I actually had the trip route entered into two or three different navigators.. and I used at least two of them in the first 20 miles! lol
So anyway.. I am plodding along, famiar with the route and knowing that I'm getting off at the allentown exit, shooting west across Rt78 for a ways, then heading north somewhere along the way to head up to Sharlesville where Roadside America is.
As I approach the Allentown exit, where I am sure I'm getting off - because I've looked at the route and entered it into several different navigators right??? But the Google Navigator app that I'm using at this point for my GPS tells me to keep going to the Leigh Valley exit???? Huh??
I'm a pretty quick thinker, so immediately deduct (since I'd switched navigator apps at least once already at this point) that this navigator app is taking me one exit further along the turnpike and then must be planning to take me a scenic route west and then South to shartlesville.. I keep tooling along happyily ignorant in the knowledge that my adventures had in fact started at that very moment!!! lol
On through the tunnel I go, and 18 miles later exit at Leigh Valley and get on 209 S as I'm instructed to do. Immediately the wise (and annoying) voice from the navigator starts telling me to make a U-turn and then a right onto the entrance ramp to the North East Extension SOUTH!
After pulling over and examining the mapped directions more carefully... sure enough, the bitch had me driving up to Leigh Valley, looping through the exit/entrance ramps only to drive back 18 miles South on the turnpike to exit CORRECTLY at Allentown.
What the hell???
At this point any sane person would hop back on the turnpike heading north to Rt 80 and take the most direct, fastest way to my end destination of Wellsboro.
However... I've never claimed to be sane, and I was damned determine to have an adventure on this first day of my vacation.. so I followed the cursed GPS's stoopid ass directions and went BACK down the turnpike to 78 where I KNEW I should have gotten off in the first place! Oh well. I'm NOT on a timeclock so all's well...
I was soon greeted by a homely Amish couple at the entrance to the somewhat hokey, very awesome little attraction in no-where PA.
This place is actually pretty cool. It's a miniature village, the largest known in the country. Built by hand, by a guy (now deceased) who was into miniature train sets. The displays depict life in rural america from the 1800s through to the present - industries, architecture, homes, villages, towns... it was neat and really interesting. I passed on the giftshop...
One (miniature) porta potty you missed out on, Michelle!!!
After spending a little more than an hour checking out their HUGE display I set out for Wellsboro. I removed the Brewery from my trip route, double checked the directions for any more "loop-dee-loops" and arrived safely at Linda and Larry's in plenty of time to run some errands before settling in and watching a movie...
Stay tuned for an accounting of ReCycle Day itself, along with more pics and video too!
Have I told you lately that I love my phone???
Later Yo
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