Sharp's Travels

Hard to believe that it is the first of October already, don’t know where the last two month have gone. We were on the road by 9:00 am as we had 300 miles to go today. It was a day that I hadn’t been looking forward to due to all the traffic from New York to Washington DC. Things started out ok and then at the first toll booth we almost got into an accident with a van. They are rebuilding the toll booth and not a lot of room to get out of the booth and back on the highway. I guess this van didn’t want to be in back of us so up the left side of us with no room for him to get by, anyway that’s what I thought, but was wrong. I had to make a quick evasive move to keep him from side wiping the truck. Well we are both wide awake after that happened. We had our trip will planed and mapped out so no problems right. Well we planned on going on the New York throughway, well when we got there a sign said no trucks. So now we have to find a place to pull off and check the map for a new route. Of course with all the traffic finding a place to pull off and get back on was a major task. Before we left we knew we couldn’t go through any tunnels because we are carrying LP. So motor homes and travel trailer can’t use the tunnels. Finally we get on I 95 south and things are going good. Cheri is concerned because we don’t see any RV’s. I told her that they didn’t want to use the short cut and she said that they were the smart ones. We did have one tunnel that we had to bypass near Baltimore which we knew about ahead of time and had our route around it without any problems. Will except for getting back on I 95, three times the GPS said for us to exit left on to I 95 so I work my way across three lanes of traffic and everything is good. Well now the GPS says exit right so now we have to cross the three lanes of traffic back to the right, didn’t make it and missed the exit. As it turned out we only had to go a mile to get turned around and headed in the right direction. We finally arrived at Cherry Hill campground in College Park at 4:00 pm. While we were checking in two guys came in and wanted to know who owned the Excel 5th wheel. After a long stressful day I thought this can’t be good. It turned out that there is an Excel caravan of 26 Excels staying in the park and they wanted to welcome us in and invited us to come to meet their group. All said and done it was an interesting day and with the good Lords help we had a safe trip. It did cost us over $60.00 in tolls today and $16.00 to cross one bridge and only $2.00 for cars.