This is our last week away and our 2nd week in Williamsport. Our free day on Sunday was fabulous - we drove up the Pine Creek Rail Trail to Wellsboro and the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon - truly magnificent.
We saw lots of deer on the side of the road - very exciting as wildlife had been quite scarce since arriving in this part of the country.
We drove through the little town of Morris - home of the Annual Rattlesnake Roundup - mmmm!
We lunched in Wellsboro - a most lovely town with gas lamps all along the central median strip and majestic homes lining the road - all snow covered and very picturesque.
We celebrated Valentine's Day here - a special day as it also commemorated the 1st year anniversary of Martha's husband Ben's death. She and John worked all day together and then we went to
dinner at Ruby Tuesday's to celebrate Valentine's Day and to also celebrate Ben's life - Martha was very brave and is continuing on life's journey with a smile and a strong faith in her religion and the belief
that everything happens for a reason.
Wednesday afternoon we walked along the banks of the mostly frozen Susquehanna River - it was a beautiful sunny day - refreshing and exhilarating although quite cold. During the 1800's this river was filled with thousands of log rafts and men on their way to markets hundreds of miles down river for the pine logs to be used for shipbuilding.
On Saturday we packed and headed back to Pittsburgh where we spent one night before heading home to Houston. On the way we drove through lots of small towns, asked directions from an Amish man in a buggy and shopped in a small Amish store well off the beaten track.
We were definitely in 'Amish land' seeing lots of large white houses, red barns, no electric poles and numerous buggies parked in driveways. Sometimes a simple life with no mod cons and no 'stuff' sounds quite liberating.
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