Day 34: Memory Lane

Headed from Philly to New York, we took a detour Allentown. Allentown (Macungie specifically) is where Rob spent 2nd and 3rd grade and met Ryan, the best man in our wedding. We stopped by his old elementary school and both his old house and Ryan’s house.

Next stop, very close by, is the town of Emmaus, where Rob’s dad’s family grew up. This house is 75 years old and still looks fabulous.

We wrapped up our Allentown area tour with lunch in this medical building parking lot which used to be the Mack Trucks headquarters, where both Rob’s dad and grandpa worked for a number of years.

The remaining 2.5 hours (which became 3 hours, thanks to NY city traffic) of our drive was into New Jersey and then New York. Those tollbooths are so narrow and the chaos of the 10 lanes merging before and after the tollbooths caused a lot of anxiety.

We made it through all the tollbooths, over some beautiful bridges, and finally into the most random campsite yet. We are staying in Greenpoint (Brooklyn) at the Skyline RV Camp, which is basically a parking lot on the edge of the East River.

Once settled in we headed out for some Brooklyn style pizza at Paulie Gee’s before heading back to the site to watch the sunset and then see the city lights light up the sky. We were all in awe.

The RV has continued to provide us many “gifts” when opening the slide after a day of driving. Today we found two washers and two screws on the ground. This isn’t a very fun game, and there isn’t an apparent place these items are coming from, so we continue to wait for something bigger to happen (though we think at least a few of them were extra pieces of hardware left in during construction).