Thursday, the third of July, was a hot humid day. At lunchtime we took off in toward Manheim looking for someplace to eat. Manheim had gotten hit pretty bad on Wednesday with a storm that cause branches and trees to be blown down. We could only go part way through town on Rte. 72 as the road was blocked off for a crane doing some clean-up work. So we continued out of the town and drove to Mt. Joy where we found a little Mexican restaurant where we ate lunch. On the way back toward the campground we stopped at a country market. (It was surprising how the storm on Wednesday skirted around the campground. We were in Cornwall, north of campground, and saw winds blowing strongly and then we saw the destruction in Manheim which is south of the campground). We did have some showers Thursday evening and rain continued most of the night.
Today, Friday, the 4th of July, started out cloudy but gradually became clearer by afternoon although there was a good wind until evening. The temperature remained in the 70’s all day and is to be a cool night (50’s). Windows are opened and the air conditioning is turned off. We started out this morning going to Green Dragon Farmer’s Market in Ephrata but when we got there it was so crowded and parking was almost impossible that we just continued on. We then stopped at Sharp Shoppers super market and purchased a few items. After returning to the motorhome to put away our grocery purchases we decided to go into Lebanon to see the town and maybe find someplace for lunch. Many places were closed today due to being a holiday so we continued on. The GPS showed a barbeque restaurant in Palmyra so we continued to that town but the restaurant was not at the location the GPS took us. Continuing on we found Funck’s restaurant with a parking lot full of cars so we stopped there and had really nice fried chicken dinners. A few miles further and we were in Hershey where we visited “The Hershey Story, the museum on Chocolate Avenue’’. The admission was $9.00 for seniors. A very nice museum about Milton Hershey and Hershey Chocolate.
