We put Gettysburg, PA in the rear view mirror by 8:30 AM. Our next
destination was Poughkeepsie, NY on the east side of the Hudson river. We
took a busy route 15 to Harrisburg, PA and in about 25 miles crossed the
river into town. We eventually got onto route 209 east that took us through
many small and medium sized Pennsylvania towns. We saw buffalo in Halifax,
PM, we saw another Model A Ford drive by us in Beltsville, PA and around 1
PM in the afternoon we drove past a place called "Country Junction" billed
as the world's largest general store. Well, we just had to stop and after
doing a double left hand turn we pulled into the very busy parking lot.
Some of us had soup and hot dogs for lunch. While the ladies looked around
the store afterwards, Lou and I went into the parking lot to switch out
distributors on my car. If you recall, I had already done this once in
Kanab, UT. The unit we installed was the same one that was in the car
originally but I had put new ignition points in it one evening during one of
our stops in the Sooner state of O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A. After doing the
transplant, the car ran much better on the replacement distributor.
The store was something of a big ChuckE Cheese, a Tru Value hardware store,
food concession, lame general store according to Trish and a place
frequented by young families with 4 children under the age of 7. The next
part of the day took us through a big town that was having some kind of
Halloween deal downtown with a more of those young children walking around
begging for candy. It took a while to get through the town with all of the
traffic lights and crappy PA road surfaces. You'd think with the high gas
tax Pennsylvania would have decent roads but they were some of the worst we
encountered during our sojourn.
We finally had to get on interstate 84 to cross the Hudson river over the
Newburgh bridge. That went better than expected and we got to the hotel in
short order after that.
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