Well, here it is. The end of the trip. This post has been a little delayed and I’m sorry about that.
I’m still going to be traveling for the next couple of days but I felt that this segment of the trip has come to an end.
Ben and I spent the night in Stroke’s State Park, in Ohio on the Sept 2nd and had the whole place to ourselves for most of the night. A Tesla decided to park in the parking lot sometime during the night. I think it was because we were the only ones there that we both thoroughly enjoyed the stay. it was quiet and peaceful with plenty of trees and unlike Colorado, had a great reservation system. (I’m not still upset about it or anything). We did have the pick of the site so we were being very picky of the 50 or so odd available spots. As far as our last night camping it was fantastic.
We woke up, made coffee, of course, and headed to Parkersburg, WV. Breakfast was along the way at a local diner that served what I believe is the best french toast that I’ve had on the trip and possibly the worst coffee I had on the trip. Still, breakfast was well worth it after our single meal of KFC the previous day. Ben also had his first Sheetz MTO experience. Sheetz is a gas station in the Northeast that serves faster food like sandwiches, burgers, wraps, etc that are Made to Order (Or MTO). I’m a fan.
We switched drivers and drove all through the western part of Maryland, through Pennsylvania and finally made it to New Jersey to drop Ben off for the night where I experienced Pickled Garlic. It's pretty addictive and I kinda want more. The next morning I woke up and had breakfast and then left for PA where I’ve been for the past day and a half or so.
There wasn’t too much to write about as we were driving the last 8 hours of our trip. Looking back its been a lot of fun with a lot of good memories and several things added to the bucket list along with about 1200 pictures to go through and process. I enjoyed my time traveling across the US and every time I’m excited to see something new along the way.
I’m already planning the next trip which made to for me to finally finish off the rest of the lower 48 that I have hit yet, Oregon, Nebraska, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. I’m thinking a road trip to Canada to see St John’s and Newfoundland would be good along with stopping in and seeing the last place in the US where they make wooden boats by hand.
I still have a Vintage car race in Watkins Glen this weekend to see and to make it back down to Virginia but as I said this is a good endpoint for the BSIIH series. Thanks for reading it.
On to the next adventure. Do it for the story!