Road Trip 2019 Day Four! Pennsylvania Sheetz!

Leaving rural Ohio to get to Gettysburg because after all, a history geek like me Max must see yet another site where thousands of American heroes died and thousands of traitors got what was coming to them.

Through Ohio into a state I have never set foot in, West Virginia. You enter Trump country and pass thru the city of Wheeling, home of a closed down stogie factory. You drive thru tunnels dug into mountains and realize its a long ass way to the next stop, Harrisburg, Pa. Or maybe Hershey. Who knows? Maybe Mechanicsburg. Into Pennsylvania you go when you realize this is the East Coast, where everything costs extra. Refills on pop (soda for you people who are wrong) and driving on roads. The Pennsylvania Turnpike. Hey I'm no turnpike virgin. Ive been screwed by Kansas for years. Ive had to drop 30 cents and 75 cents and $1.10 into all sorts of buckets around Chicago. How bad could the Pennsylvania Turnpike be? I take the ticket and hand it to Max. Max looks at it and says rather sheepishly, uhhhhhh they are going to charge you $23.40 to get to Harrisburg. WHAT??? My rube self kicked in and I looked at the ticket once, twice, three times. Yep, $23.40. To drive? I'd have been better off riding some Amish wagon on some back country road.

Down the turnpike past an actual Amish guy seeding his field courtesy of a horse and a spinning seeder. Wonder what a picture would have cost? Pennsylvania is all foresty and farmy and long. We arrived at Harrisburg and went right through to Hershey to stay at a hotel where I assume the beds are made of chocolate and M&M's come out of the shower. Well not really but there were also no running trucks, bedbugs or stopped up toilets.

To go to Hershey's Chocolate World is to enter a very Disney like atmosphere but much less expensive. You can enter the place for free, or pay lots of money for 4D movies and kids stuff. Thank god we now have an adult sized kid cuz 10 years ago this would have been a $100 day at a giant chocolate store. You can ride a teacup like ride thru a Small World knock off called Hershey Chocolate Factory where you are "entertained" by puppets and animatronic animals and get your picture taken and are being set up for a potential fleecing. Hey, at the merciful end, you get a free fun sized Hershey bar. Should we quit while ahead?

No chance. Theres chocolate to be purchased. The same chocolate you can buy at any 7-11 or Dillons but since its right there in Hershey its somehow better. The rube set back in. They did have Zagnuts however. Zagnut Bars were banned in the Midwest during the Great Coconut Peanut Butter Massacre of about 1975. I should have bought thousands.

We went back to the hotel and ate scrapple and drank wooter and bought gas at Sheetz. Ah life among da English.

Day 4 finished.