Saturday – Sep 20 – Kutztown, PA

Following our exhausting drive yesterday, we elected to lay low today. This decision was an easy one given our experience after breakfast. We thought we’d head over to Allentown / Emmaus. We had just started the trip on a beautiful, limited-access, divided highway, when it ended; went to one lane; and traffic stopped as far as the eye could see. So as soon as we could, we came back to the RV, me for a nap.

Although not as cold as Vermont last night, the heater ran frequently and was nippy this morning. It was supposed to get to 69 degrees today, but the breeze is cool. It was clear, blue sky with scattered clouds all day. The verdant green is gone fading into gold and brown.

Breakfast this morning was a repeat visit to Letterman’s Diner in Kutztown. At about 10:00 a.m. the place was packed. Every stool and every table was filled with folks waiting outside. As we may have mentioned from our last experience, the food is good with huge quantity. Most of the folks seated at the counter were “substantial” in size. Margaret tried to capture the effect with today’s first photo. We imagined what it would look like in the dead of winter with everyone bundled up, squeezing in to fit. We really needed a wide-angle lens, but I think you’ll get the idea.

I’ve included a shot of the menu specials of the day. I can’t imagine what the New Orleans omelet would taste like (or how I would digest it!). Being a weekend, there were three waitresses – all from the local Kutztown Univ. They looked too young to be working, but that happens as you age.

Following breakfast and our ill-fated attempt to go for a drive, we stopped in at a local cemetery (surprise!). Most of the stone were so old they were illegible. To avoid sitting in the car this time and because it was such a beautiful day, I took camera in hand and took some photos. The church – Lutheran – was new, pretty, and in a lovely, leafy, hilltop setting.

We have noticed that the green hills and corn of three weeks ago (early September) is gone, and browns and yellows are now the prominent colors. But the trees have not yet begun to change as they had in Vermont / New Hampshire.

You see many things in campgrounds these days. I just saw a lady wearing a grass skirt and leis. Guess they must be having a luau at their site.