A Day Off (9/9/2015)

We took the day off today -- a first, really.  We are not very good at "down days" as Marilyn calls them.  But we both felt like we needed to recoup after Boston and New York City, and this Gifford Pinchot State Park Campground seemed like the place to do it.  We lazed around this morning and about 11:00 decided we should go up to the office and extend our time here two more nights, and maybe drive into the next town for Joe to get a haircut.  And get the car washed.  Maybe do a little shopping for a new camera bag.  See how good we are at "down days."

Anyway, we drove up to the campground office.  Found out the spot we were in was reserved, so we had to move.  This whole park has 289 campsites and there probably aren't 2 dozen people here, but our spot apparently had been reserved.  We unfortunately chose a site in the "pet section" which cost $3 more, so we saved $6 by moving, but still.  They told us the pet sites go first, so we just chose wrong.  We didn't know that was a big deal, and we didn't know the pet section cost more. 

We went back and put stuff away, pulled the slides in, and drove over to a different site and got set back up.  Then, we drove into Dover, and on into York.  We found a place for Joe to get a haircut and I browsed the Big Lots store while I waited for him.  Then we had lunch, and stopped at a car wash and vacuumed the inside of the car.  We had seen a few car washes and he thought he had seen one with better washing mechanism, so we didn't run it through that one.  Well, we never saw a better one, so we didn't get that task done.  We didn't want to turn around and go back, so we left that for another day.  And it's supposed to rain tonight, so maybe that was just as well.

We got back to camp, Joe added Freon to the Explorer (another item on his chore list), we read our books, I laid down and maybe dozed off for 5 minutes, read some more, made some phone calls, had dinner, and spent some time on the computer.  All in all, we got some rest today.

Tomorrow we have Gettysburg on our agenda, a bus tour.  However, as I said, it is supposed to rain so we will have to make a final decision in the morning.  But we have plans to meet Eric's brother Brian and his family for dinner tomorrow, so we will have that to look forward to before we pull up stakes and head out of Pennsylvania.