We had a four-day business event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to attend. After attending that, we took the long route home. In total, we were away for eighteen days, visited fourteen states, and drove over 3,000 miles.

  • On the road again

    Nice view spoiled by the hotel buildings. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    We’re off on our travels again. This time, it is to a four-day business event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Following this, we will take a slow, as yet undecided, route home.

    Day One

    Our trip started with a diversion as the I-44 was closed due to flooding. We managed to find a quiet detour with almost no traffic on it. Crossing the Gasconade river was interesting, as the river was almost up to the bridge deck (I should have stopped and taken some pictures). Once back on the I-44 it was an easy (but long) drive to Indianapolis.

    Day Two

    We drove from Indianapolis to our hotel on the outskirts of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

    Day Three

    Today we are going to tour some museums, and tomorrow we head off to Lancaster, and the event.

  • Beaver Moon. Road trip, November ’24

    Day Four

    Drove to Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

    Days Five – Eight

    Business Event.

    Day Nine

    Pack up and drive to Philadelphia.

    Days Ten – Eleven

    Beaver Moon. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    After three days traveling followed by a very busy four days, we were ready to just crash. We stopped for three days in a hotel on the outskirts of Philadelphia to regroup and make some outline plans for our route home.

    During our stay I spotted this picture of the Beaver Moon from our hotel room.

    Day Twelve

    We drove to Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and visited the Mercer Museum. After spending several hours there, we set off toward Delaware, stopping for the night in New Castle.

  • Raymond Pool from the Raymond Observation Tower

    Raymond Pool from the Raymond Observation Tower. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware.
    Raymond Pool from the Raymond Observation Tower. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    Day Thirteen

    Raymond Pool from the Raymond Observation Tower. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware. Road trip, November ’24.

    We plan to head down the Delaware and Maryland coast, cut across Virginia, and visit North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and hence back home to Missouri. We’ve no idea how long that’ll take, but I have a dental appointment on November 27. So, we’ll be back before then!

  • Boardwalk — Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware

    Boardwalk — Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Reeds on the Boardwalk Trail. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware

    Reeds on the Boardwalk Trail. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Ginger dips her toes in the Atlantic Ocean. Lily Beach, Delaware

    Ginger dips her toes in the Atlantic Ocean. Lily Beach, Delaware. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    After we visited Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, we headed down the Delaware coast and stopped for our first view of the Atlantic Ocean in many years (March 2014).

    We then continued down the coast in search of somewhere to stay.

    Ginger found a great deal on a hotel in Ocean City, Maryland. One look at the view of the Atlantic from our room’s balcony and we both said that we must set an alarm for sunrise the next day.

  • Waiting for the sunrise. Ocean City, Maryland

    Day Fourteen

    Waiting for the sunrise. Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Daybreak. Ocean City, Maryland

    Daybreak. Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    Sunrise on the Atlantic. Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Commercial Development

    Hilton Ocean City. Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    This wasn’t meant to be a picture of a hotel. I was more interested in how commercial development dominates the environment and how the buildings seem to run forever along the coast.

    Hindsight suggests I should have picked a starting point for the image with a less dominating subject. Also, the focus is a tad soft for some reason.

    Hilton Ocean City. Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Commercial Development II

    Hilton Ocean City. Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    I changed position, and this works a lot better at showing the development without the hotel getting quite as much attention, even if it does still dominate the picture more than I’d like.

  • Ocean City Beach, Maryland

    Ocean City Beach. Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    Looking south, commercial development ceases abruptly.

  • Beach-front Hotels

    Ocean City Beach. Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Formal beach attire

    Formal beach attire. Ocean City. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Ocean City Beach. Maryland

    Ocean City Beach. Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Up with the gulls

    Up with the gulls. Beach view from the eighth floor, Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    Atlantic View. Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    Atlantic View. Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Atlantic View

    Atlantic View. Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Stripes — View from our hotel room

    Stripes. View from our hotel room. Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Enjoying the morning

    Enjoying the morning. Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Left behind

    Left behind. Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    The chair was on the beach last night when we arrived and was still there when we checked out.

  • Horseshoe Crab — Assateague State Park, Maryland

    Horseshoe Crab — Assateague State Park, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    Horseshoe crabs are not crabs. Check it out.

  • Not another soul in sight — Assateague State Park, Maryland

    Not another soul in sight. Assateague State Park, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    Waiting. Assateague State Park, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Reeds

    Reeds. Assateague State Park, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Reed beds

    Reed beds. Assateague State Park, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Beach trail

    Beach trail. Assateague State Park, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Table Rock from the Grant Meadow Overlook. South Carolina

    Table Rock from the Grant Meadow Overlook. South Carolina. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Pinnacle Lake, Table Rock State Park, South Carolina

    Pinnacle Lake, Table Rock State Park, South Carolina. Road Trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    Pinnacle Lake, Table Rock State Park, South Carolina. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Pinnacle Lake, Table Rock State Park, South Carolina

    Pinnacle Lake, Table Rock State Park, South Carolina. Road Trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Table Rock & The Stool. Table Rock State Park, South Carolina

    Table Rock & The Stool. Table Rock State Park, South Carolina. Road Trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    Table Rock & The Stool. Table Rock State Park, South Carolina. Road Trip, November ’24. Road trip. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Peter Knob from Popcorn Overlook, Georgia

    Peter Knob from Popcorn Overlook, Georgia. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    Peter Knob from Popcorn Overlook, Georgia. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Peter Knob from Popcorn Overlook, Georgia

    Peter Knob from Popcorn Overlook, Georgia. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    A couple of rushed pictures as the sun went down on the distant mountains. I processed the two pictures differently and couldn’t pick between them, so you get to see both.

    Peter Knob from Popcorn Overlook, Georgia. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Cherohala Skyway, North Carolina

    Cherohala Skyway. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    Day Seventeen

    When I’m out backpacking, I can rely on the Gaia GPS App to provide me with accurate information on where I take my pictures. When driving Google Maps (which, incidentally, only works on a cell phone now), you can only find out where you have been if Google thinks it is ‘Interesting’ enough — or, more likely, there could be some profit.

    I spent quite a while trying to determine where I took this and the following two pictures. But no luck. It was somewhere on the Cherohala Skyway.

  • Cherohala Skyway, North Carolina

    Cherohala Skyway. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Parked on the Cherohala Skyway, North Carolina

    Parked on the Cherohala Skyway. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Santeetlah Lake, North Carolina

    Santeetlah Lake. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Santeetlah Lake, North Carolina

    Santeetlah Lake. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Foothills Parkway West Overlook #14, Tennessee

    Foothills Parkway West Overlook #14, Tennessee. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Foothills Parkway Southwest Parking #12, Tennessee

    Foothills Parkway Southwest Parking #12, Tennessee. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Foothills Parkway Southwest Parking #10, Tennessee

    Foothills Parkway West Overlook #10, Tennessee. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Foothills Parkway Southwest Parking #10, Tennessee

    Foothills Parkway West Overlook #10, Tennessee. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Foothills Parkway Southwest Parking #10, Tennessee

    Foothills Parkway West Overlook #10, Tennessee. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    Foothills Parkway West Overlook #10, Tennessee. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    And that’s all folks. The following day we drove back to Missouri via Tennessee, Kentucky, and very briefly Illinois.

    Trip over. Fourteen states, in eighteen days, and three thousand miles. After that we need a break! And I need to dust of my backpack and get out into the woods.

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