Good Night, Chocolate Avenue

Dan came with us--and the drive, slicing through Pennsylvania farmland near sunset, was pretty. But the "check engine" light is back on in our 2002 Toyota Camry. And Dan was cranky, not necessarily a surprise; he has been up since 3 a.m. Nashville time. He couldn’t sleep. And he leaves for Cuba next Monday on an exciting reporting assignment.

We saw fawns, horses, cows, cornfields, silos, barns. I thought of the old movie "Witness" w Harrison Ford.

It is 9:51 p.m. and we all brushed our teeth and are in bed in the Howard Johnson by Wyndham hotel on Chocolate Avenue. Punch and I plan to ride the Cocoa Coaster tomorrow.

We drove by the Hotel Hershey [since 1933] and it looked fancy. It is very expensive. It was maybe $450 per night in the summer for a single room and even with the media rate offered after that, very luxury-priced.

We also passed the Milton Hershey School.

We’re lucky we can leave Sugar home w Figgy. No pets allowed in this hotel.

Good night.

TCOY

1. Got to my support group.
2. Ordered a salad for dinner. [But had a few spoonfuls of Punch’s dessert--not worth it.]
3. Brought and used my Trish McEvoy Gentle Cleanser--and two petite scented gardenia candles + matches, a trick I learned years ago from my friend Candy [when we rented hotel rooms for Eileen and Pete’s wedding].  I read online that the rooms here smell musty, and they do--but I had already booked ours.