Set off for Bethlehem. Our last stop before New York. It looks like we’re going to make it on time from our coast to coast marathon as we only have 90 miles to go. We need to be in New York by 1:00 tomorrow to return the rental car and we could probably have got there tonight but this way we’re avoiding the nightmare of trying to find somewhere to park in NY overnight.
It was really hot again but thunderstorms are expected which should reduce the temperature. NY seems relatively cool if you can believe the temperature charts.
We came through Harrisburg today, an important city in Pennsylvania. (It's the capital of the commonwealth; not sure what that means). While there we visited the Museum of the Civil War as it has a reputation for being the least biased of the civil war museums. They told the story well, by following the lives of several different people most of whom ended up dead, but it was very absorbing and we spent longer than we meant to. Over 600,000 deaths out of a population of around 27 million!
After familiarising ourselves with the civil war, we cheered ourselves up by visiting Chocolate World in Hershey which is close to Harrisburg.
We did the circuit on the little train, listened to the singing cows and then, as we were leaving, were approached by someone who wanted to recruit us for some market research into Hershey products. This sounded rather attractive so we agreed eagerly and were taken away to a little kiosk and given some chocolate. We had to take a drink of water, a bite out of a cracker biscuit and when we’d swallowed it, eat the chocolate and answer some questions. I had a tiny little sugar-free chocolate wafer but David was given three big chunky chocolate peanut butter bars. No complaints there! As a reward, we were each given a Hershey bar on the way out but it quickly went soft in the heat so we had to eat those too.
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