Ohio- November 20, 2010

I was one day early to rendezvous with David and three hours late picking Karlyne up at the airport.  Our timing is just a bit askew.  After leaving Louisville we knew it would be a long haul to Philadelphia to get Karlyne at midnight, but we didn't realize we would find so much to do on the way.
We stayed near Cincinnati Friday night so we could explore the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.  After an emotional tour we began our nine hour drive east. We made it to Frazeysburg, Ohio just in time for a harried shopping trip in the Longaberger Factory store while dinner was cooking in the oven.  Then back on the road, and an expensive road it was.  Thank goodness David realized that my plan to disconnect my car at a service center on the Pennsylvania turnpike was deeply flawed.  I would have tried to exit the turnpike in Philly with no entrance ticket- HUGE FINE!  At the next exit David veered off to Hershey and I took my GPS's very obscure route to the Philadelphia airport.  After driving safely across eight states I almost hit a deer in some suburb of Philadelphia.  I especially loved seeing the beware of deer sign around the next corner.   I made it just in time to be three hours late picking Karlyne up.   At least it was midnight her time.   





The Ohio River represented freedom from the slave state of Kentucky for thousands of Black Americans before the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 allowed slave traders to track runaways into free Ohio.

Yes, the Longaberger home office is really a giant basket!