Home made butternut squash ravioli and veggies
  We drove out of that state park near Charleston, WV the short way and it only took about a half hour. That state park was very remote but the night was very dark and quiet. The road out was about 5 miles long, very twisty, very narrow, and mostly gravel. We drove the rest of the way across West Virginia – very pretty country by the way – and into Maryland. The drive was in the Appalachian Mountains and even though they don’t really compare to the mountains in the West the roads have a lot of ups and downs. There is one section where a sign warns about 13 miles of 5% downhill and there was lots of corresponding climbing to get there. We drove over Donner Pass in California in May and I would compare some of the hills here to that but fortunately it was nowhere near as hot here as it was there.

I am, of course, paranoid about how the engine sounds and behaves but for the most part it was perfect. The only bad behavior was just as we stopped for the day. We were driving in Maryland and talking about going to a KOA resort – read “expensive ” – about an hour more down the road when we saw a sign for a state park with camping that was not on our map (Streets&Trips). We pulled off and idled while Carol looked it up and called for prices etc. We decided to go for it and when I started driving again I had a little stumbling happen but it went away pretty quickly. I think I must have gotten an extra dose of crapahol at the last fillup just prior to the stop. We’ll see tomorrow.

We went to the state park – Rock Gap State Park – there were only two spots left with electricity – need the A/C for a while at least – but they didn’t have a laundry and we needed one. The guy gave us a card for a campground about 2 miles farther down the road so we called them. They had decent rates, lots of space and a laundry. So we are at Hidden Springs Campground. They list their location as Flintstone, Maryland but they are actually in Pennsylvania – hence the title of this entry.

We did our laundry – planned and unplanned. The unplanned laundry was from our rear air conditioner leaking on the bed. It is so humid here that the A/C unit produces a lot of water. The boneheads in Tucson that installed our A/C unit about 4 years ago moved the old Duo-Therm from front position to the back and didn’t seal it right. It leaked once during our 2010 trip in Memphis with high humidity but this is the second time that it has happened on this trip. I soaked a spot on the bed so we had to dry the mattress pad, sheets and blankets.

Dinner was a repeat of a previous night – pasta that I made myself and fresh veggies. The photo does not do it justice – it was delicious.