We drive down to Hershey PA weekend before last. Helen had an interview at the teaching hospital there:
A small town of 12,000, about 15 miles from 3 mile island nuclear power plant in Harrisburg. Formed when M Hershey sold his caramel company in 1903 and built the worlds largest milk chocolate factory in the middle of dairy cow country, where there was lots of milk:
He did well, giving away his fortune to support a school for the needy and built an an amusement park for his employees, now a big ride park for anyone:
I didn’t do those rides, I took a tamer, free ride, hosted by singing cows, that explained how chocolate was made:
I’m always amazed at how old stuff is here in the East (I’m scared to visit Europe). This is a shell that Mr. Hershey built over a schoolhouse built in 1732, the year George Washington was born:
After Hershey we drove to Philly to visit our physics professor friends. This is Helen and Helen (in Russian, they kept it simple and name all women Helen):
And this is Alex (yep, all Russian men are named Alex), in his Jesus mode, waiting for the grapes in their new grape vines to ripen:
On they way home, I hit notice a small bump in the highway and started wondering when we should replace our tires. About a minute later, I got my answer:
So we are mostly done with travel for the summer. One more trip back to the lake in a couple of weeks:
This time we will stay for a couple of weeks and bond with the loons. One of the lake people shared this photo of this years 2 loon babies on a swim with their parents:
