Small Town Western Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Farmland Taking a road trip is one of my favorite things to do. And when I have the time to “shunpike,” or drive on the blue-line highways instead of the interstates, it is even better. So when I had the chance to take a trip to Minneapolis by car, I took full advantage of being retired and spent several days crossing Pennsylvania while both going to and returning from the Midwest. The trip through Pennsylvania is beautiful. Northern and central Pennsylvania is home to the Alleghany Mountains, which run in long ridges in a mostly east-west direction. This means that the roads pass from forested mountains to farm-land valleys. I-81 stays in a mostly undeveloped stretch from New Jersey to Ohio, but Google Maps and my research sent me through many of the towns that inhabit the valleys of the state. Some of the things I saw were planned and some were happy accidents, but I enjoyed the entire trip. Here is a rough map of my trips through Pennsylvania – The black ...