Wilkins RV, Bath, NY

Tuesday was my Birthday, and it was great getting all the birthday wishes, from the songs, to the FB and txt msgs I received. Birthday or not, Brad had a Dr. appt. so needless to say we didn't do much to celebrate my B-Day. We stopped and had a bite to eat on the way home from the Dr., then got home and sent Brad off to rest. Me, I hung out, did some walking around and talking to the neighbors and the new people pulling in. The new arrivals are usually the most talkative and have some interesting stories of the travels to tell. I finally headed in about 10:00 and off to bed shortly thereafter.

Wilkins Campground

Wednesday morning I was checking the maps and trying to make some travel plans. We have an appointment Friday up at Wilkins so that changed our original travel route, so after many phone calls, the reservations are made and the first being the parking lot (they call it their Campground) of Wilkins. The rest of the afternoon we just hung out and very slowly cleaned up and packed up the RV decorations preparing for the next move. Early afternoon I headed up to Lynne and Rick's, threw our comforter in the washer, waited for it to finish then hung it out to dry. I got back; we finished what we could, got showered and headed back to the Shirks. I had one more load of laundry to do, and we then were heading to the Pizza Grille for my B-Day dinner, yea. We had a good meal and then back to the Shirks. I finished the laundry, and then we headed back to camp and off to bed by 11:00/11:30

We are on the Ramp, and there are
cars and 18 wheelers stopped
along Route 15 in NY

Rain blowing across

Well here it is Thursday and I didn't get out of bed until 7:30, by then the thunder storms were rolling around pretty good.  Brad already had everything outside cleaned up and put away, so just finish the inside and off we go.  I tried to get a  shower, I managed to get in the shower, get wet and almost immediately jumped out  as I watched the lightning streak go over head(yes there is a sky light in the shower).....so much for getting a shower. We finally headed out about 10:30, stopped for gas and then headed up the road. We stopped for lunch in Selinsgrove then back on the road. We stopped at Lawrenceville at the PA/NY border for a break and some iced tea, where everyone was talking about the storm in the area and headed this way. Oh well, back in the RV and into NY, heading into the storm the way things looked ahead of us. As we keep an eye on the weather, we round a corner and here it comes....you can see the torrential downpour blowing down the mountain. We are right at an exit, Brad gets off and parks on the side of the road......here we go, literally riding out the storm. The RV was rocking pretty good and in the pic above there are 18 wheelers pulled over and in the lower pic, the rain is blowing so hard it looks like snow blowing across the road. Well we are now at Wilkins, all checked in, out for dinner and back with me working on the blog and Brad is watching the TV and having his pretzel snack. Need to do dishes, make coffee and get off to bed. I want to be out of here fairly early tomorrow. We'll keep you posted on the RV repairs and travels.

Diane and Brad