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Our First Fully Working & Traveling Van Camping Trip

Our First Fully Working & Traveling Van Camping Trip

This time we were out for about three weeks before we decided to head back to Virginia and take a trip with my parents. This trip was all about working, and less about playing. It was our test run – can we really work on the road and be successful as planned. The result? Awesomeness.

We successfully found and processed more inventory on this three week trip than we would in two months sitting stagnant. And, we had the added bonus of seeing lots of cool sites, and visiting again with Laurie’s friend in PA. Enough babbling, on with the trip…

We have friends in the Yorktown area, and love the available thrift stores in some of the surrounding areas; we started our trip by heading east. Of course, no trip towards Yorktown is complete without a drive down the parkway.

After a few stops, we headed towards our friend’s place where we could camp in the driveway for the night. We had a nice spot we could set up our table, put Gypsy out, and visit and enjoy the evening. Onward, toward Virginia Beach. It’s been years since I had been on the Bay Bridge Tunnel and, it took us the way we wanted to go.

We were unaware of the awesomeness that lay on the other side. Little did we know there was a great park – Delaware Seashore State Park, with trails, great views, and cool stuff to see.

Passing through Delaware was nowhere near what I expected. Although the mosquito population in Delaware seems to be four times as large as anywhere else we have been, the residents make up for it with being quite possibly the nicest people on the face of the planet. Seriously, I did not have a single person anger me anywhere in Delaware. While in Delaware, we also happened across a fully gluten free restaurant, The Birch Tree Cafe, which made Laurie pretty happy. We stopped in for lunch and even had a chance to talk with the owner, Cathy, while enjoying our lunch on the patio overlooking their garden. While mapping our way through locations to visit and replenish inventory, we noticed a few building which looked abandoned. While this is nothing out of the ordinary, these seemed to have outbuildings that went on, and on – we had to stop and look. It turns out, it was a large factory – the size of some small towns.

Due to oncoming storms and darkness, we elected not to explore the buildings, but did take a few moments to snap some pictures. Onward in to Pennsylvanian. We decided early on we would not use highways. Traveling mainly down and around US Rt. 30, we saw a lot of great scenery and stopped at a lot of great shops. Pennsylvania is full of covered bridges, and we like bridges. We did not have a chance to see them all, but we did stop at a few.

While traveling to the bridges, we also happened across the coolest Ollie’s ever, located inside an old Children’s Palace Toy  Store.

Ollie's Bargain Outlet in an Old Children's Palace

Ollie’s Bargain Outlet in an Old Children’s Palace

The rest of our trip was fairly uneventful and business as usual. We made our way into Pittsburgh, and headed toward our friends place where we would camp until we decided our next adventure. We set up in our normal spot and made our new home for the next few days.

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We started thinking about which direction we may want to head, when we talked to my (Alan’s) parents and found out they were heading to a family reunion, into West Virginia, and then who knows. After a bit of discussion, it was decided we would head back into Virginia and make a family trip out of it.

Alan Cook

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