Nice quiet evening at Resort World Casino. It is 47 degrees this morning, as we turn south towards Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
We stop at the Bagel Station in Port Jervis, New York, for a quick breakfast. Lots of interesting bagel choices! I had a French Toast bagel, while Greg had a blueberry one. Very tasty with cream cheese!
We cross into Pennsylvania at 9:00 and soon are at the Delaware Water Gap Rec Area. We follow a sign to Raymondskill Falls. Beautiful wooded area with nice falls. There are some wooden stairs and viewing platforms as well.
The road through the area (209S I believe) is roughly paralleling the Delaware River, and we stop at White Pines Trailhead and walk a bit to see if we can get a view of the river. Not a very clear one....
Finally we come to the turn for the Visitor's Center, which is a few miles. We stop at a few smaller falls areas along the way.
And, when we arrive we find the Visitor's Center closed for the season. As is the campground. Turns out their "season" ends October 15. But the Visitor's Center is also the start of a trail to Dingman's Falls, so we go for a nice walk through the forest. This area has many eastern hemlock trees which unfortunately are being attacked by an asian invader which is decimating the Hemlocks.
We pass several other visitors on the way back, including two rangers who give us a few recommendations of other places to stop.
Tom's Creek is a nice picnic area, once the home of the area's 1st grist mill. We walk the trail to the creek, which is an exceptional trout stream, we read, but it is beginning to sprinkle a bit and we turn back to the Trek.
Eshback is a boat launch area on the river but rather unexceptional in the misty rain. We make some pb&j sandwiches for a quick lunch, then decide to go ahead and head towards Camp Hill, PA and the LA Fitness there. Greg lived in Camp Hill for a few years during high school, and my Grandparents lived in Camp Hill as well, but it has been a while... It rains all the way there - about a 3-4 hour drive.
We have called some old college friends, Cindy & Ted, who live nearby in Mechanicsburg, so after the gym, we head to their house for a visit. (They live about 5 minutes from Greg's old Highschool!) They live in a very nice 55-and-up community. Lots of fun catching up and sharing college memories. We've only kept up via Facebook so we have lots to discuss, from travels to Grandkids and everything in between!
They've made dinner reservations at a place called Black & Bleu, where we have a terrific dinner.
What a fun evening! And comfy bed too!
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