Birthday celebrations started when Drew arrived. It was great having him around for a whole week. We went to several good dinners and visited the Penn State Arboretum.
Axeman Brewery, sitting along the creek.
Celebrations continued at Happy Valley Winery when Biscuit Jam played. .
Then it was a quick trip to Prince Gallitzin State Park July 7-8 to test our new Blue Ox towing system.
We sold the trailer to Ryan since we no longer needed it. The Blue Ox tow bar system will allow more flexibility where we can go, especially when boondocking.
Prince Gallitzin is in the Moshannon State Forest. It’s only about 60 miles from our house BUT it’s up and down mountains and sharp turns so it took us about 1.5 hours to arrive. Once you’re here, it seems like you’re in the middle of no where, no big towns, only small ones like Frugality, Patton and St Augustine.
The weather wasn’t the greatest. Lots of gray skies and rain. We did get a 4+ mile hike in Thursday morning. Beautiful hike through the forest. Only saw one other person on the trail. Lenny had a good time sniffing and smelling new ground.
Even with intermittent rain and storms, we managed to kayak early morning on our last day. Then the winds kicked up so we got off the lake.
Ready to kayak.
Osprey nest.
Rusty Rail was my next celebration with Gale and Ken Miller and Ken and Beth Raney. Great food, beer and a shuffleboard challenge.
See, I do celebrate for a month!!
What a great birthday month!!
ReplyDeleteI think we passed Black Moshannon on our way to the elk place last summer. There really are some REMOTE places! That one lake picture is so beautiful!