TN7 Hop 11: Woodbine MD to Honesdale PA

230 miles via MD 97/PA 97, US 15, PA 581 in Harrisburg, I-81, US 6 and PA 170. Cumulative tow miles: 1789, Truck miles: 380. Cumulative truck miles: 2753. The extra truck miles were due primarily to a trip into Frederick to get propane and diagnose the “check engine” light, but also about 30 miles spent avoiding a tornado.

Well, at least getting out of the path of a potential tornado. A tornado warning was issued Monday night and the projected path took it within 10 miles of the RV. Too close for me. So I packed Rusty into the truck, grabbed the laptop and drove about 10 miles south to a place where I could watch the sky and listen to the weather reports. I don’t think any tornado actually formed, but the winds were strong enough to knock down trees just north or the campground. A tree falling on the RV would do just as much damage as a tornado.

This was another hop where Google and the GPS were in violent disagreement. The Google route (which is the one I chose) was 230 miles – pretty close to my 1-tank limit (the “low fuel” warning sounded just 2 miles from the destination) so I didn’t have a lot of wiggle room. I certainly didn’t have the luxury of taking the 255 mile route suggested by the GPS. Even after traveling 20 miles north on MD 97 the GPS was telling me to turn around. Why traveling an extra 45 miles (which was the difference at that point) would be a faster trip puzzles me. In any case, I had carefully researched the Google route and it looked fine. It was.

Other than the tornado adventure and the worry about the engine, the 2 nights in Woodbine were pretty uneventful. My home was the Ramblin’ Pines Campground. This was a very nice campground and my site was a very nice pull-through. Very wooded (hence my concern about falling trees).

This campground is about midway between Frederick and Baltimore. If the Orioles had been in town I would have been tempted to go see them at Camden Yards – a park I have always been curious to see. But as luck would have it, the Orioles were in Oakland which is on a completely different coast.