We left Tionesta, PA today and decided to take Hwy. 6 as our main route to Cowanesque, PA. Our next campground is at Tompkin's Campground, which is another corps of engineer park, on Lake Cowanesque. It is absolutely lovely here! As careful as we were to check out our trip today, you know what they say about 'best laid plans', they don't always work. We wanted to stop in Kinzua State Park and see one of the 10 highest skywalks in the world, and walk on it. Jim checked out Google Earth and it looked like we could bring our motor home, towing our truck in and make a loop return back out. When we got there, they had one section on the main road in, marked for RV's and buses. No turnaround. They are building a new Visitor Center there, and it appears to be fabulous, so we may have to come back again. They closed the loop road off, and only cars permitted to drive into the other parking lot (which was big enough for us to turn around!). We enjoyed the awe of the bridge, and met some neat people along the way, and tried to stay focused on the majesty of this structure, and forget about how we were going to get out of there. We managed by unhooking, turning around and hooking back up again. Hwy. 6 was a wonderful and scenic drive and we're so glad we took it. Jim got a little concerned when his motor home GPS kept telling him to turn around, as there was a 10 ton limit ahead! I told him that we checked with the PA DOT and they said we could travel it with no problem. I also told him that we just crossed 2 - 10 ton limit bridges and all was fine! We are only here for three nights, and I know we will wish that we could stay longer, but we need to keep on schedule to meet our son and his family in Bar Harbor. This isn't too far to come back someday. I tried to post some pictures from today, but our internet isn't very good here, and it wouldn't do it. Our phones are also dead, so we won't get any messages until we get to a different location. We are having 75 degrees weather and dry air, so it's beautiful here.
I'm posting pictures from the Kinzua Skywalk. We're a day late but with lack of internet service, we had to go to Plan B. We did the Watkin's State Park today and I'll write that tonight. Awesome place. We just had lunch at the Castel Grisch Winery, perched high above Seneca Lake with a great view. We even bought some wine! Now for the pictures from yesterday.
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