Day 7

Wednesday, June 1, 2005Laurel Hill SP, Somerset, PA
Miles: 921Health: All better!

We spent the morning looking for a Rite Aid to fill my prescription. I had called in from the road several days before, so we had to go to a specific one, which was too bad since we passed a whole bunch of them. This particular one was difficult to find and we wasted the entire morning getting a prescription. By the time we got on the road it was 11 am and we were grouchy from frustration. Life on the Road Lesson 1: just go to any old Rite Aid and wait the 15 minutes while they fill it. We soldiered on and made it to Somerset, PA and Laurel Hill State Park with minimal stops along the way.

One of our stops was in Bradford, PA, the home of the Zippo lighter. We learned about the history of the Zippo and took some cool photos of the Zippo car and the streetlights around the museum. PA has a thing for shaped streetlights. Hershey’s are shaped like kisses. Anyway, Zippo was fun to walk through, and then it was back on the road.


We stopped in Somerset, PA, about 40 miles shy of our intended stop in Oakland, MD. Laurel Hill State Park was pretty wildernessy and not very crowded. The inaugural Lewin camping trip was a great success. We got our tent up without killing each other and Keath got a fire going with no problems. We had a lovely dinner of gussied up Ramen (thanks, Dad!) and hit the self inflating air mats.