A Pit Stop in the Poconos

When we pulled out of NC at the beginning of May, we were headed to New England. We wanted to avoid I95 and take I81 to I84, which meant finding a place on the way somewhere in Pennsylvania for the work week.

On our first drive day of the weekend we made it to the sweetest place on earth, Hershey. But since we had visited Hershey’s Chocolate World on our way to NY in 2021, we opted for Lindt and Troegs Brewery this time.

I’d had a campsite booked at Promised Land State Park for months, which promised plenty of beautiful hiking trails in the Poconos. But then I started to get worried about how good our internet signal would be in such a tree covered mountainous state park.

That’s how I found the Infield Campground (with FHUs) at the Pocono Raceway. Not a single tree in sight to interfere with Dishy.

It rained most of the week, from thick fog to mist to torrential downpours. Despite the rain, we finally busted out of the Brinkley on Friday afternoon. We wanted to walk around the town of Jim Thorpe, which I’d seen on a couple of those America’s most beautiful towns lists.

The town’s name of Jim Thorpe, originally Mauch Chunk, was changed in 1954 to memorialize the famous Native American athlete.

The next morning the sun was finally shining and we were on our way to Rhode Island!