7/9/15 - Scranton, PA

Last night we stayed at a Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park.  We had never stayed at one of these resorts before.  It was a half price Passport America campground.  I made some really good oatmeal this morning with quinoa and chia seeds, almond milk, honey, raisins, apples and walnuts.  Jim updated the blog while I went to see Yogi Bear at the raising of the U.S. Flag for the day - I had my picture taken with him.

We left camp and drove to Lackawanna State Park just north of Scranton.  After selecting a site we drove into Scranton to Steamtown National Historic Site. This is a steam railroading museum.  It is on the yard of the Delaware, Lackawana and Western Railroad.  It has a round house, a working turntable, and maintenance buildings where the old steam locomotives are restored and maintained.  There is also a collection of old locomotives and rail cars.  One of the locomotives was a “Big Boy”, one of the largest and most powerful steam locomotive in the world.  It weighs 1,250,000 pounds.  We went on a behind-the-scenes maintenance tour. They have a locomotive that has been cut away on one side and a ranger talked about how it works (it’s complicated).

After the museum closed at 5 pm we went a couple of  blocks over to Backyard Ale House and had a couple of beers.  It was sunny this morning but by 6pm it started to rain again.  I talked to mom this afternoon and she seemed to be having a good day and was making a lot of sense.  We went back to camp and I cooked supper.  We have been gone 31 days and haven’t seen any molded fiberglass trailers yet.  Today we saw the first one and it was a Casita.