Rod and I are still mourning the end of our road-trip vacation, so we decided to celebrate Ty’s fourth birthday by taking the dogs on a day-trip on Saturday. We say our cottage is in the “Poconos,” but those familiar with the area would disagree. For the locals, our cottage is too far west to be included in the famous mountain area – I guess they might consider us to be in central Pennsylvania. In fact, I have never been to what would be considered the heart of the Pocono Mountains, known as Lake Wallenpaupack. We thought it would be a nice drive, and so on Saturday morning we loaded up the dogs and headed out.
Buster has developed a new game in the car. He is sort of chasing traffic from inside the car. The game starts with him stretching forwad as far as his car harness will reach so that he can rest his head on the armrest between the two front seats. From there he is able to see out the windshield and he watches for oncoming traffic. Once he sees a car coming toward us he starts to get really excited – he watches it out the windshield, driver’s window, back seat window and eventually out the rear window. He never takes his eyes off the car as we go buy, so you can imagine his head is turing really fast. It’s kind of funny the first few times, but then it gets a little annoying.
So, we load up the dogs and take off on Saturday morning. Ty promptly turns two circles in the back seat and falls asleep while Buster plays his “watch the traffic” game. It took us a little more than an hour to get over to the Lake, which was not what I expected. It is a very large lake with mostly residential areas around it. We found one place where we could park and wald down to the beach, but there was really not a place to take a hike or get out and enjoy the day.
We did find a nice place of lunch with outdoor seating and good food. The gentleman even gave the dogs a little dish of (sugar-free) ice cream with a dog treat on top! We got a picture of Ty eating his – Buster’s was gone almost before we set it down.
Ty enjoying his birthday treatGreat little place!
From the Lake, we drove south on Hwy 6 through Milford. What a cute little town! I would have loved to stop, walk around, and get something to eat, but by that time it had clouded up and both dogs were asleep in the back seat, so we enjoyed the views from inside the car. We stayed on Hwy 6 down through the Delaware Water Gap area – we really need to go back because it looks like there are some great hiking trails we’d really enjoy. We also concluded that we need to do day-trips more often. They are fun, they feel like a little mini vacation, and there are so many places right in our area that we’ve never visited. If you have any suggestions for us, let us know!
