Woke early and after breakfast early departure for two block walk for our first encounter with the subway. Nice New Yorkian helped us buy our tickets and then another large young male helped Petal through the turnstile and accompanied us onto the train and told us when and where we had to change trains to get to Penn Station.
Second train very crowded and not helped by the homeless gent who took up an entire seat and most of the floor space surrounding him with his life carried in a number of shopping bags.
Successfully reached Penn Station and had to walk across undergroung to Grand Central for a train to South Amboy to pick up the RV. Talked to the local NYPD boys for a while and was surprised by the amount of security between them and the Marines, (HEAVILY armed) They assured me it was just another day on the job. Train to South Amboy uneventful and met by the rental mob and driven to the depot.
Turns out that we are in luck and have a Sunseeker MH complete with slide. For those uninformed a slide is when you pull up for the night or lunch and press a button and the complete side of the van expands outwards giving you much more space inside. This is also equipped with a gas remote operated generator so by the flick of a button inside you have instant mains voltage.
After instruction on its use we are off on the freeway, wind in our hair, Libs anyway wreeking havock on other unsuspecting motorists. Destination OCC or Orange County Choppers and Paulie Senior 70 mile north of New York in Orange Count. On the way we visited Wal Mart and Shoprite and stocked the RV with goodies.
The travel through Orange County was magnificent being heavily wooded and would be a sight in Autumn.
Got to OCC about 3.30pm and watched them filming an episode of the show, saw Paulie Senior and others and took photos of all the theme bikes.
Purchased a couple of shirts and decided to depart with our intended destination Quakertown Pennsylvania. After travelling about 40 kms we entered a state recreation area nd decided due to the time and the beautiful scenery that we would have our first night in the RV in the Park. Early start tomorrow and we can make up the 50 or s mile not done tonight.
I suppose the biggest mistake I made was to point out to petal the sign saying that you shouldn’t feed the bears. WRONG decision. Turns out the last sighting was three weeks ago when one was seen munching on garbage that hadn’t been placed in the dumpster correctly.
Apart from this, great place in heavily wooded area and it gave us the time to sort out all the places for things in the RV for the next four weeks.
Its 6AM now and I am sitting at the picnic table typing this in the lovely morning weather with the sounds of the bush enveloping my soul. Ah feel the Serenity. Think this is Bonnie Doon.
Also saw some waskily squirrels
Must away we are hitting the road to the Bass pro shop and the Civil war fields today.
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