Back at Home Base!! Jonestown, Texas!!

We are back in Jonestown, Texas.
It was a long trip back from New York and we are glad to get to stop and rest awhile.
It was an interesting trip and we did enjoy the beauitful country and interesting sights.
Always good to stop for awhile.

Flat Stanley on Texas Soil.....

Texas Bound!! Vicksburg, Mississippi!!

Last night we spent the night in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Vicksburg is almost to the Mississippi/Louisiana border........right on the Mississippi River.
We stayed at a place called Ameristar........not the Hotel or the Casino..........but the RV Park.
Yes, they even had an RV Park.
After dad's supper we went over to the casino and had supper in one of the restaurants and of
course John had to spend some of that money in his pockets.
The pictures are of the Ameristar Casino on the Mississippi River.






This is the bridge we crossed this morning from Mississippi into Louisiana over the
Mississippi River.



We had a good time.......Didn't win
but it was fun.






















Neat Place!!

Endless Caverns in Virginia!

Tonight we are in a RV Park called Endless Caverns and RV Resort located 4 miles south of
New Market, Virginia. This morning we left eastern Pennsylvania going into Maryland and then
West Virginia and stopping in the northern part of Virginia. The Appalachian Mountains run between West Virginia and Virginia. This is beautiful country.


The RV Park is situated at
the foot of the Massanutten Mountain and in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley.


This park is called Endless Caverns because it houses an underground world of endless caverns.

The spaces are HUGE here.......just what we love!!

BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY!!

The pictures just do not do

it justice.

Leaving New Jersey/New York!

Today we left New Jersey heading back to Texas. We had a great time visiting with Cody (grandson) and getting to see some of Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York.
I was a little disappointed we didn't get to go closer to the Statue of Liberty.
We did see it many times from the Promenade on the Brooklyn side.
On Saturday when we went over to Manhattan to get a taxi boat to ride out to see it, they were sold out.
Then on Monday when we went back to Brooklyn to see Cody and visit before leaving.....Cody and I walked down the Promenade all the way to the end and guess what?........we could have got one there but with Monday being Columbus Day (holiday)........... it was closed.

It was a "great" experience and a little overwhelming.

Tonight we are back in Kutztown, Pennsylvania at a very nice RV
Park. There is a Winery here called Pinnacle Ridge so after going
to eat we stopped by to check it out and got a couple bottles of wine.

Beautiful Country.......................

This is the grape vines............The grapes are grown here, they

process the wine here and bottle it here.

Inside you can see where they store the wine in the wooden barrels. They have won many ribbons and metals.

Pennsylvania Table Wine

These are the two different ones I got.

The one with the red rose is called Sweet

Seduction. A moderately sweet red wine

made entirely from Chambourcin grapes

The other one is called Vidal Blanc made

entirely from Vidal Blanc grapes grown

at Round Ridge Farms in Pennsylvania

Dutch Country......Here!!

You are probable wonering who this guy is that Grandpa & I are holding. His name is Flat

Stanley! He came to visit with us from

Ceci's (granddaughter) 2nd grade class at Summit Pointe Elementary School in Kansas City, Mo.
Flat Stanley's goal is to visit as many

of the 50 states as possible. He arrived just before our trip to N.Y.

so he has visited many states with us.
We have enjoyed having Flat Stanley ride along with us.

Both pictures of the Statue of Liberty

where taken from the Promenade in

Brooklyn.

Manhattan Bridge

The building Cody lives in is called St. George.

It is in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Bridge.

This building is a church in Brooklyn. A

very pretty building.

This is some apartments in Brooklyn.







New York truly was an experience!

Brooklyn/Manhattan New York!

We went into Brooklyn, N.Y. today to see Cody (grandson) going
to acting school in Manhattan. We are staying in an RV Park in
New Jersey.......about an hour or little more away.
We go from New Jersey over a bridge to Statan Island and after
crossing Statan Island cross over another bridge from Statan
Island to Brooklyn. Cost $19.00 to cross these two bridges.
This picture is of Manhattan skyline taken from Brooklyn side.



This picture is of the Brooklyn bridge going from Brooklyn into
Manhattan. We didn't go on this bridge because we took the subway from Brooklyn into Manhattan.










There were all different street people on the streets of Manhattan
doing different things to get money. We stopped and watched this
guy and he could bend himself around in different positions At the
end he tied himself up like a pretzel.

This is Pier 17 at Manhattan. Lots of ships and boats

to take rides. We tried to get a taxi boat to go out to

the Statue of Liberty but were sold out for that day.

We only went into the south end of Manhattan to try and get a

taxi boat to go out to the Statue of Liberty. It is on Liberty Island.

This is where we went down and caught the subway from Brooklyn over

to Manhattan.

The little yellow boat in this

picture is a taxi boat.

This picture shows a tug pulling a barge.

This picture of the Statue of Liberty was taken from the Promenade in Brooklyn. Also the sky line of Manhattan was taken from there. The Promenade is a long place by the water you can walk down along the river......it is close to where Cody lives.

The Statue of Liberty is out on

Liberty Island. I always thought it

was on Staten Island.

This is the Promenade

RVing Gramps with Cody on the Promenade in Brooklyn.

These buildings are in Brooklyn

just wanted to show you that every

building is different.

News stand on the corner

John wanted me to take a

picture??











Cody in front of

the building where

he lives in Brooklyn!

Building where

Cody lives.

This is the bridge we cross from Staten Island to Brooklyn.....Cost a car $11.00 to return.

Going into Brooklyn.
Almeda this is only a

little of the traffic we

had going into Brooklyn.




Statue of Liberty from the Highway.

This is the bridge from New Jersey

to Staten Island. Cost a car $8.00

to cross.






Seems every road you get on is a toll road or you pay to cross a bridge. I see why people have to

live here........they can't aford to leave. Takes all their money for toll roads and bridge's.

One toll road we used coming into New Jersey from Pennsylvania cost $23.45 for the RV and

$10.95 for the car.

Nice place to visit But I Would Never Live Here!!