Will be on Vacation: PA mountains/NY border

[Lady Rainbow]

Leaving Sun for Dubois, PA. Meeting my in-laws there. From what I understand, Alleghany (NY) State Park is only 50 miles from there, and Pittsburgh isn't too far away...I think.

Anyone familiar with this area?

[Alelou]

Hope you have the wonderful and relaxing trip you so deserve right now. I bet JT and Mitchell are your best bets for info in that area.

[justTripn]

I live in Pittsburgh! Please stop by!!!! I won't bite. I've hosted T'Sara and she survived the visit, even wants to come back. Y2Kelly lives here too! PM me for details.

[Mitchell]

In case Yal havent guesses it yet,, Im busy as hell right now. So Id make for a piss poor host let alone a tour guide.


PA is chuck full of State parks, not to mention Game lands that double as state parks. Pleanty of Hiking possiblities.

If you were leaving in August, Id say head East a bit to Williamsport an Try to catch one of the lil league World Series games.

Theirs of course The Pine Creek Gorge (AKA PA Grand Canyon). In my home county Tioga.
Then in Bradford County, theirs the French Asylum. Located on the banks of the Susquehanna River. Place is probably nearly the only reason theirs anyone of French decent at all in this part of PA. It was ment to be a Refuge for thos loyal to the King of France, an suppossedly Marie Antoinette an her Children were going to go there as well. Of course she never made it.


Sorry I just really dont know all that much about Western PA. Blame my Blind/narrow minded determination to save the Eastern/central PA farm land from Development, at any cost.

[JadziaKathryn]

Well, I am a big fan of milk and other dairy products, so keep at it, Mitchell!

[Mitchell]

Well, I am a big fan of milk and other dairy products, so keep at it, Mitchell!

Will do! As long as Im kickin.

[Linda]

Interesting history, Mitchell! Fascinating.

Lady Rainbow, I hope you have a good time and that you visit JusTriping! Let me know when you are coming to Milwaukee, or at least Chicago. ANY of you all, let me know when you are in my stomping grounds so you can have a nice in-person visit. And a boat ride on Lake Michigan.

[Distracted]

Now THAT will definitely have to be a summer trip. Brrrr.

[Linda]

Oh, a cousin of my mother's (now deceased) used to live in Owego, New York and I have a cousin I just visited last month in Bolivar, New York. Both towns are fairly near the NY/PA border. I don't know the area well, but it is beautiful. I hope your vacation is fun and restful.

[Linda]

Distracted, the weather in Chicago and Wisconsin is quite warm right now (by my standards, that is ). A bit wet, but the flooding is not right in our area. Come on up!

[Mitchell]

Flooding?! What is this Flooding you speak of?

Oh Yeah that thing that only truely affects those round my parts who [cough] are stupid to [/cough] live off the moutains an hills. Sorry Ill Take being Burried in snow over being dround out like a rat any day.


Ive been To Owego NY Many a times linda. Nice lil Town. Sits right on the Susquehanna River. Its beautiful. Its bout a 60 mile trip from the End of my drive way.


Yeah I know Im contradicting myself. But hay, a place can be beautiful an still be not that all of a realy smart place to live.

[Linda]

Hey, Mitchell, didn't know you were so close to some of my shirt tail relatives' stomping grounds! I have been to Owego maybe five or six times in the last twenty years. First time I visited, Helen (my mother's cousin) didn't lock her doors. She lived alone in a spacious Victorian house and served us this great peanut butter pie for desert - forgot what the rest of the dinner was. She had a son who stopped by every week to check up on her. Last time I visited before she died, she was locking her doors, sigh, big city fears had reached out into small town life. Not that Owego was THAT small. But Bolivar is tiny. Just was there three weeks ago visiting a cousin.

[Lady Rainbow]

I'm back!!!

Got back to Charlotte late yesterday...spent Sat on a 12 hour road trip to Dubois PA, then Sun.-Tues with the in-laws. Not fun...FIL has health problems and MIL was so uptight about having the kids there...she's of the generation of "seen but not heard" and was always 1)harping on the kids to "get off the furniture", "get off the stairs", "don't do this" and "sit still in your seat." Yeah, try getting 2 autistic kids under 6 to sit still! Doesn't count all the parenting lectures, too.

Anyway, we had a better time in Pittsburgh. Took the kids to the Pittsburg Childrens' Museum and they both had a blast! Also meet [b'justTrip'n[/b] and got the photos to prove it! Got most of the vacation pics over at the Studio, but here's the photos of me and JT.

[Distracted]

Marvelous photos.

TWO autistic kids under six? Oh, my. God BLESS you.

[justTripn]

My report reprinted from the "Happy News" thread:

Well, I met Lady Rainbow and family today!!! Her kids are only 2 and 5 (oh right and one is like minus 5 months ), so the activities were kind of low key--go to the park to playground to play in the kiddie fountain and then out for pizza. She has also seen my house and is sworn to secrecy regarding its level of cleanliness.

It was wonderful talking with her about the site and about writing. Your name came up Linda. she really likes your stuff. So do I.

Like Elessar, I am so pleased by the flood of new AND talented writers we've had lately. I don't think I'd be stepping on anyones toes to say, when this site started, it was all about the blind leading the blind. Amateurs with no writing background helping other amateurs with no writing background, learning as we go. We just felt compelled to write and discoverd new possibilities for ourselves. Now, suddenly people like Alelou AND Lady Rainbow have joined us; they write professionally AND yet they apparently like us and our stories!!!! I'm thrilled!