Raining Day Driving

This picture has nothing whatsoever to do with anything we did today. It's just a photo that Doug thought you would enjoy seeing. Rainy days are for reading books in front of the fireplace or baking cookies and watching sappy movies. Rainy days are not for driving on unfamiliar roads, especially when it's my turn to drive. We left Norfolk about 9:30 under cloudy skies but no rain. Doug was navigating as we worked on finding our way on country roads from Connecticut to New York and then on to Pennsylvania. Somewhere along the way it began to rain. Just a bit a first but eventually it was a downpour. The roads were good and traffic was light. That was the good part. After lunch, Doug took over the driving. The bad part of the day was that on the Pennsylvania turnpike there was an accident. The type of accident that brings the entire freeway to a halt. We spent two hours crawling along, being detoured through a teeny tiny town (causing people to stand on the sidewalks to watch the traffic,) often coming to a complete stop, and eventually being rerouted back onto the turnpike. We never did see what had caused the problem.

Anyway, we did make it to New Oxford outside of Gettysburg and our B&B, Chestnut Hall, is really something. It's an old Victorian that has been beautifully restored and decorated. Our room is really sumptuous and this is one of the least expensive places we've stayed. The Inn keepers are delightful, warm and welcoming. I already wish we had more that two nights here. We walked to a pizza place for dinner and are now sitting in the living room of the B&B and watching a playoff game. The rain has stopped.