Hickory Hollow RV Park, Somerset, PA, to KOA, Coatsville, PA:  Left this morning around 9:30 and headed east on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.  A beautiful drive through the lush hills/mountains of southwestern PA.  Lots of long pulls up and long coasts down and around 4 or 5 tunnels.  The truck performed really well—only downshifted around 3 or 4 times in all those hills.  Dropped down into the Cumberland Valley and stopped at a service area for some lunch.  The semi parked next to us was hauling some kind of animals—probably cattle or horses.  I could hear them thumping around in there.  It was a regular trailer with no ventilation of any kind.  I can only imagine how horrible it was for whatever animals were in there.  Continued east and got off at our exit for the KOA.  However, it’s several miles away in the country somewhere.  Unfortunately, shortly after we got off the truck started belching black smoke and we lost power.  This has happened before and the mechanic said it was just something in the air filter.  We stopped and turned the truck off and then restarted and it was okay.  But only for a mile or so and then it started doing it again.  So, we happened to be right by a Holiday Inn, and we pulled in there, parked and went inside to see if they knew where there was a GMC or Chevy dealer.  They told us there was a Pep Boys right next door, so Mike walked over there and they told him the mechanic that works on diesels had left for the day.  So, we pulled the fifth-wheel out in the Holiday Inn back lot and dropped it and Mike took the truck over to Pep Boys so the mechanic could work on it first thing.  So, here we are in a Holiday Inn in Exton, PA, only 15 miles from our destination.  Could have been a lot worse though.  81 today and mostly sunny.

Honeysuckle or Jasmine--it smelled wonderful.

Nest with four perfect robin's eggs.  In the site next to us.  Unfortunately, the nest was abandoned for some reason.