Caaalling Jungle Geooooorge!!Jungle George's Massive Trip!! (York, Doylestown: calculator, live)

[EnyaGirl]

Originally Posted by Jungle George

I've unpacked all the bags & suitcases & there's now crap EVERYWHERE!!!

So, before I get involved in sorting, washing & putting away, here's a Reader's Digest version of our trip....

Wed night to Thursday we drove from Fl to Richmond Va & stayed at a Red Roof Inn overnight.

Friday we drove from Richmond to Doylestown Pa & stayed at the pig sanctuary cottage. Beautiful rustic place!! We stayed there Thursday 'til Sunday (and saw our friend Annie's concert Saturday night...she even got me up on stage with her!!).

Sunday we drove from Doylestown to Wilkes Barre, settled in at The Woodlands, drove to Lowe's to get cemetary wreaths, got pierogi at Mom & Pop's in WB to bring home & had "dinner" (pierogi of course) at a deli with a big cow outside of it!!

Monday we drove to Breslau to see my aunt (who I haven't seen in 40 years) & met my cousins too. Then we drove to Nanticoke, saw my grandma's old house, put wreaths on my grandparent's graves, picked up all kinds of goodies at the Sanitary Bakery (unbelieveably good & SO CHEAP!!) & then went back to the Woodlands to warm up. We were gonna go to Scranton & eat in Old Forge, but it was too damm cold. We ended up at a Chinese buffet close by.

Tuesday we drove from Wilkes Barre to Poughkeepsie NY via 81 & 17 to see the scenery & got to our friend's house to spend a week & Christmas. While we were there we drove around my old stomping grounds, went antique-ing & had lotsa fun!!

New Year's Eve we were gonna drive down to Lawn Gisland to spend 5 days with other friends, but got socked in with icy snow. We ended up driving down New Year's Day & stayed there 'til Monday night. While we were there we traveled to NYC & saw the Met, upstate to Ossining & saw a Gothic Mansion, & went to an outdoor Holiday lightshow in Sleepy Hollow.

We left Lawn Gisland Monday night & made it to Fayeteville NC Tuesday morning. Stayed over at a Red Roof Inn 'til yesterday morning, & made it back home last night....

PHEW!!!!

There's lotsa details, but I don't wanna bore anybody...

You're not boring anybody, I want details, details, details!! Did you go to New Hope? How did you like it? At the Woodlands, were there any bands or music going on while you were there? Did you get to see the waterfalls outside by the bar on the deck or was that closed off? And most importantly...did you try the jacuzzi?!?!

[Summering]

Originally Posted by Jungle George

All I could think was "drinking problem anyone??" Even here in "party-hardy in the sun" Florida we don't have close to the amount of drinkeries!!

The best word I can use for my "outsider" view of Wilkes Barre is "tired". It had a forlorn, worn-out look...BUT!!!! I can truthfully say that the friendliest people BY FAR were in NEPA!!! From the "kids" on up to the "oldsters" (sorry Paul, I just had to say it...) everyone was friendly & down-to-earth!!!

Sorry we missed you at Lowe's when you were sick Paul (hopefully at least they gave you the message & the limes....) & hope you feel better!!!

I'm thinking you didn't go by the Wyoming Valley Mall area......where the Arena is located. They put in a few very nice big box stores and restaurants....... When I say how much I love Wilkes Barre, I never mean the location of downtown. More or less I love the outter reaches......
and not far from that downtown is the most beautiful Harveys Lake..
PS and yes.........all of those questions Enya asked........I wanna' know too........LOLOL

[Jungle George]

Originally Posted by EnyaGirl

You're not boring anybody, I want details, details, details!! Did you go to New Hope? How did you like it? At the Woodlands, were there any bands or music going on while you were there? Did you get to see the waterfalls outside by the bar on the deck or was that closed off? And most importantly...did you try the jacuzzi?!?!

LOL!! That Saturday we were gonna go into New Hope, see Peddlar's Village & check out coartist's winery recommendations, but there was a tree down across the WOODED MILE-LONG WINDING DIRT ROAD to the pig sanctuary & wasn't removed 'til 1PM!!! We had to be at the concert at 8PM, so we just saw New Hope for 3 hours... Didn't have time for anything else...

It's a beautiful town!! I'd like to see it when it isn't 10 degrees out!! The sanctuary owner called us when the tree was removed & I asked him about New Hope. He told us we "didn't want to go there 'cause it was full of sexual deviants"!!! I guess his brain matter didn't put 2 & 2 together with me & Bill....

So now we call ourselves "The Sexual Deviants".... WE NEED TO GET T-SHIRTS!!!!

[okaydorothy]

Sounds like a wonderful trip. I love long drives myself ; good job dh and the boys do too.

Glad you are home safe and sound.

d

[EnyaGirl]

Originally Posted by Jungle George

The sanctuary owner called us when the tree was removed & I asked him about New Hope. He told us we "didn't want to go there 'cause it was full of sexual deviants"!!! I guess his brain matter didn't put 2 & 2 together with me & Bill....

So now we call ourselves "The Sexual Deviants".... WE NEED TO GET T-SHIRTS!!!!

Bahhhahahaha! That is funny!! As for the guy...

Ok ew....that picture is actually really creepy. LOL!

[Jungle George]

Originally Posted by Summering

I'm thinking you didn't go by the Wyoming Valley Mall area......where the Arena is located. They put in a few very nice big box stores and restaurants....... When I say how much I love Wilkes Barre, I never mean the location of downtown. More or less I love the outter reaches......
and not far from that downtown is the most beautiful Harveys Lake..
PS and yes.........all of those questions Enya asked........I wanna' know too........LOLOL

That's where we ate at some Chinese buffet...near the Wyoming Mall...

I can't believe the congestion in that area!! But with all those cars, the drivers were very good & we didn't see any craziness like in NY & NJ!!! Even with the GPS we got "lost" in the back streets of WB...the poor GPS lady was "turn right"..."turn left"..."turn right"...."recalculating"..."turn left"....I thought she was gonna explode!!! We turned where she said & ended up in some section 8 housing complex!!!

[Jungle George]

Originally Posted by EnyaGirl

Bahhhahahaha! That is funny!! As for the guy...

Ok ew....that picture is actually really creepy. LOL!

Yeah, the guy definitely had no clue (when people "find out" about me & Bill they're usually shocked anyway as we're not "stereotypical"....)

As far as the pix, feet can be sexy too....

[rockky]

Well, there ya are, JG!! I tried getting the Phillip Morris red hat guy to page ya. Didn't work. Then I thought about hiring Leonard Nimoy to resurrect the 'In Search Of.." series, but I figured it wasn't really any of my business.

Glad to see you had a good trip even with the cold weather and flaccid trees.

[Summering]

Ah, New Hope.......Full of life. Artistic place......artistic shops. Oh, but on a beautiful spring day when you can meander slowly about. Then the little allyways have outdoor eating. So cute and quaint..........
I loved staying there with very eclectic people. Funny because in one shop we were looked at strangely.......Like we were the odd couple, hubby and me. LOL
No way could I roam around in zero weather...........Oh no.
( reminds me I have to upload spell check to this laptop, I am having brain freeze )

[loveinbloom]

Sooooooo glad you are back on and had a great trip!