After the long, information overload day in Gettysburg we had a scenic driving day today. We plotted a route of country backroads that would take us out the eastern border of Pennsylvania into Delaware and across the bridge to New Jersey.

It was a late night last night to get half of my blog done after we got to our hotel at 8:30. I don’t do midnight bedtimes very often. Sadly staying up late does not equate to sleeping in late. I was up at seven and spent some time resizing Gettysburg photos before John got up. We were still breakfasted and out of the hotel by 10.

The first stop was a tire shop. After we left Charlotte, NC we had to get the left rear tire fixed because it had a screw in it and was losing air. As we drove around Gettysburg, the dash lit up with a warning that the same tire was low on air again. We went to a tire shop in Hanover and sure enough; there was a nail in it now. They were able to fix it right away and we were on our way again in about a half hour.

Near the town of Shrewsbury we encountered a one-lane railroad bridge we had to drive under.

Buildings as we drove through Stewartstown.

Farms and barns near Woodbine. We passed many corn fields today.

Crossing the Susquehanna River.

Quarryville was Amish country and in the space of a few miles we saw horse/mule teams working in the fields and horse and buggies heading into town.

A couple more passes under old railway lines.

We entered Delaware at 2 pm and took a few minutes to find a geocache. We will be back in Delaware tomorrow and will try find a few more, but we entered the state at the very bottom corner and it was only took about a half an hour until we crossed the toll bridge into New Jersey. The rental car has a sticker for toll roads and bridges and the toll cost will go to Budget and be added to our account when we drop off the car.

Pick a lane and a state.

The Delaware Memorial Bridge between Delaware and New Jersey.

Once again the small country road we were on when we entered Delaware did not have a welcome sign. It was state number 14 and New Jersey is state number 15 on this trip.

We found our hotel but did not check in. We went to find a couple of nearby New Jersey geocaches first. One was hidden in the bushes over on the right, but we could not find it.

We did see this nice heron though.

And we found two geocaches hidden around Sadler’s Pond, which had lovely reflections today.

We checked into our hotel about 4. I worked on my Gettysburg blog until dinner and then completed it afterward, then selected and resized photos for today’s blog.

Tomorrow is a semi-free day. We plan to do a slow meander down New Jersey locating a few geocaches and then catch the 2:30 ferry across Delaware Bay back into the state of Delaware to spend the night in Millsboro.