Peg started the day by sending an electronic message to our daughter Dana wishing her happy birthday. Peg sent the message at 6:00 AM local time. I hope the ring on Dana’s end didn’t wake her up since she is in the west where the local time was 3:00 AM.
We ended our time in Gettysburg Resort (which is actually not very close to Gettysburg) and drove about an hour to Hershey TT Resort which is not really very close to Hershey, PA. The park is actually about 15 miles east of Hershey near Annville, PA. Despite the park not being in Hershey, it is a very nice park with all the amenities you could ask for in an RV park – pool, hot tub, two laundries, two ponds, tons of birds and lots of geese with their broods of young ones dutifully waddling along behind Mom and Dad. Most all of the site have full hookups (water, power, sewer) and the flora in the park is beautiful. The whole area is pretty scenic with rolling farm country interspersed with dense hardwood forest.
Since we had such a short drive to get here, we were set up early in the day and had ample time for exploring. We started our explorations by driving to a town called Palmyra where we found a beer distributor that advertised 200+ types of malt products available called the Beer Cove. They had an adequate selection of porter products which Peg and I have decided is the best stuff for us. We left with two cases, one of Deschutes Black Butte and another called Edmund Fitzgerald which are both terrific beverages.
Not having been able to actually drink in the Beer Cove, we went to another place which was advertised in the handout they give you whenever you check into a TT park, namely a bar called Funck’s. They advertise that they have 56 beers on tap so we were able to ask the barkeep to give us an eight-glass flight of porter. Unfortunately for us, none of the products we sampled was as good as the products lurking in the back seat of Charlotte although the drinking was good. We left Palmyra hoping we didn’t get stopped for any quizzes by the local cops and made it back to the Hershey park before dark.