I continued East to Sandusky, Ohio, getting in some roller skating at “Ghostly Manor”:


I’m overnighting at the Cracker Barrel in Sandusky. See the trip map for today’s drive.
I continued East to Sandusky, Ohio, getting in some roller skating at “Ghostly Manor”:


I’m overnighting at the Cracker Barrel in Sandusky. See the trip map for today’s drive.
Historically, we’ve either spent Passover at home or in the RV. This year, we rented a beach house in Sandbridge, Virginia, along with a few hundred other Jewish families.
Drone view of the town:

Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge is south of town:



Much roller skating was done over the two weeks we were here:
I also did some running on the beach, south to the pier:


Flying too:




Here’s a video of some of the flying:
We drove into Virginia Beach and visited a Japanese “sister city” park:



Parents:

So long, Sandbridge. We had a great time, and we’re planning to come back next year:




The kids drove back with Trish. I drove back by way of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge:



I drove on to Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park:


The visitor center was very well done. Harriet Tubman was an amazing woman!

I continued to Philadelphia, where I did a drive-by on two closed NPS sites, Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial and Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site:


After a nice weeklong family reunion and Shabbos in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, I continued east into Wisconsin:

A sample of the wonderful town names of Wisconsin:

I continued east into Illinois, fighting my way through Chicago traffic:

I drove to a Chicago suburb to visit Pullman National Monument:

The Monument preserves America’s first planned industrial community, built in the 1880s to support production of Pullman sleeping cars. I checked out the visitor center:

I then walked the community. The houses are now privately owned:






I continued east into Indiana to roller skate at Sk8 World in Portage:

I continued on to Elkhart Indiana to overnight at a field where a PPG pilot will meet me for a morning flight. See the trip map for today’s drive.
After a nice Shabbos in Taylor Park, I said goodbye to Clay and drove East over Cottonwood Pass:


After checking out the town of Buena Vista, I drove northeast through South Park and down out of the mountains into Denver, where I went roller skating:

I continued on to the Pawnee Buttes, where I got in Flight 136. It was short, since I had to land before sunset:


See the trip map for today’s drive.