Drove about 6 hours with stops from Bradford, Pennsylvania to a campground about 10 miles north of Cooperstown, New York. Beautiful drive on an interstate winding through big valleys, surrounded by large hills/small mountains, all covered by forests. I’ll be camped here two nights and then I’ll start heading home. Tomorrow the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Took a thirty minute drive through rural Pennsylvania to Bradford PA to get a couple of things. Beautiful country with large forest covered hills. Population is about 9000. Bradford has the oldest continuously operating refinery and the Penn-Brad Oil Museum. Bradford also has the Zippo Lighter Museum which I drove past but did not visit.

www.zippo.com for the history

Tomorrow I’ll be heading to my campsite north of Cooperstown New York.

I want to say again before talking about my little water leak that I do this blog for me but don’t mind if others look. If this was meant primarily for the public I wouldn’t be posting photos of my sink trap.

Great news for me! This morning I decided to see if I could fix the water leak in my kitchen slideout. There’s a small storage area behind a cabinet door below and in front of the sink in which I keep dish clothes. Lately the dish clothes have been wet. There are little walls that form this storage area. These walls prevent you front seeing the sink drain and water tubing. The bottom of the walls were wet. Fortunately the screws holding the walls were easy to remove. The water tubing looked great, no leaks. Every large plastic nut in the drain and trap assembly was loose. Water was sitting under the trap. I hand tightened everything under my sink and it’s fixed. At my third stop on my first trip after retirement I had a small leak behind my toilet which I fixed by hand-tightening a plastic nut. The camp host said “when you’re driving down the road there is a small earthquake going on inside your trailer”.

I think when I get home I’ll cut them down to about 3 or 4 inches high so the area can still be used for storage while providing access to the tubes and pipes. That or leave them out and screw a storage basket to the bottom, or both.

For the next three days I’ll be camped at Tracy Ridge Campground in Allegheny National Forest in northern Pennsylvania. It’s beautiful. I noticed on my drive and up here there aren’t many conifers. It’s almost all deciduous. A nice change. I don’t know anything about plants. Can’t see anyone from my campsite. Not sure why I have a bar on my phone. Must be a tower up here somewhere.

I’m looking forward to the Baseball Hall of Fame. I’ve considered heading to Kansas City after Cooperstown in order to see the Negro Baseball League Museum but that would be about 4 to 5 days of travel for a couple of hours in a museum. I’ll wait for my next trip out west to see that museum.

This morning I discovered a small water leak under my kitchen sink. A couple of months ago I bought extra tubing and hose clamps to be prepared for a leak. Problem is I’ll have to disassemble part of my kitchen slideout to access the leak. I’ll have three days. Hopefully it takes just a few hours.

Today I visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame

The Hall of Fame is on George Halas Drive as it should be

I looked and looked but couldn’t find anything on the Green Bay Packers. It’s as though they never existed.

Well, OK….

Aaron Rodgers showed up when I was there. He was demanding to be measured for a crown.

Drove eight hours from Brevort Lake in the Upper Peninsula to Maple Lakes Campground in Seville, Ohio. This is a huge private family campground with a store, pool, pond, etc.. It’s a very nice campground with 194 sites. It looks as though most sites have trailers and rvs parked for the season.

I’ve canceled the Manhattan and Museum of Modern Art part of my trip. I was going to spend a lot of money, time, and energy to walk around the museum for a few hours. Someday I’ll take a train to Manhattan and spend two or three days sightseeing.

I’ve had September San Juan River reservations for months. The way things look out west is not promising. Looks like it may be a terrible year for heat, drought, and fire. I’ll have to keep an eye on it.

Tomorrow at 10 am I will tour the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s about 50 minutes from my campground. After the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame I’ll visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame which is kinda back towards my trailer.

Rained all night long which can be a kind of comforting sound in a trailer. It’s comforting knowing you’re in a trailer that has never leaked and not in a tent. It’s supposed to rain until around 11 am but remain very windy in the afternoon. Good day to read a book.

The Mackinac Bridge Authority issues advisories. Just my truck would be fine today but I wouldn’t drag my trailer across cause I’m retired and don’t have to be anywhere. Years ago I saw a documentary about the bridge. There is an office on each side of the bridge. If you are afraid of driving across the bridge you can stop at the office and they will drive your vehicle across the bridge.

I guess until further notice drive it yourself

Camping the next two nights at Brevort Lake National Forest Campground in Hiawatha National Forest. The campground is roughly 20 miles west of the Mackinac Bridge. My plan for tomorrow was to cross the bridge, drive down to around Petoskey and Charlevoix, and walk the beaches a little bit to look for Petoskey Stones and Charlevoix Stones. Nothing wrong with a walk on a beach. It doesn’t look like the weather is going to cooperate. Might end up buying a stone. They don’t cost much.

A friend of mine I went to college with from 1970 through 1972 was playing with his band at Rock Island Resort which is a few miles north of Merrill, Wisconsin so I made a stop there the first stop of this trip. I camped at Council Grounds State Park. The park is two miles north of Merrill and Rock Island Resort is two miles north of the park. Turns out it’s a biker bar which was ok with me.

Before I post the photos I should say…

I did NOT vote for Trump and never would, not an insult

I did NOT vote for Trump and never would, not an insult

Almost everyone was outside until dark. Just before dark I went inside to watch the end of the Bucks game. By the time the game was over it was dark and everyone was inside the bar. Got a little crazy but not too crazy. It was a good night.