Welcome to Pennsylvania!

We left Gettysburg and headed north on US 15 and found a local store for supplies and our first regional ethnic food- hard boiled eggs pickled in beet juice.

IF you like pickled beets, you'll.... either like or tolerate these.
I like them.

See how pretty this is? 

And I love the beets!

North of Harrisburg we picked up the Sesquehanna River north along US15 in lovely afternoon light.   The newest must have on any unplanned road trip is the official  “What’s with that….?” List  aka, notebook and pen on hand to write down odd things and questions we would surely have that we need the Internet to look up.   It was started  when we say a 25 foot tall white stone woman standing on a rock in the middle of the river. 

 Why is there a Statue of Liberty standing in the middle of the Susquehanna River?  

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/1103

http://hereandthereandback.blogspot.com/2011/07/dauphin-narrows-statue-of-liberty.html

"Located in the Dauphin Narrows of the Susquehanna River, this 25 foot replica of The Statue of Liberty stands on an old Marysville bridge platform holding her torch high.  This is actually the second statue to stand on this pier.  Both statues were built by Gene Stilp. The original was built in 1986 but was destroyed some years later in a storm.  It was made from Venetian blinds and stood only 18 feet tall.  After it was destroyed Stilp rebuilt the statue using wood, metal, glass, and fiberglass."

Other burning question- 

Who or what is McKees Rocks- it’s a bridge in Pittsburgh and a waterfall in central PA.

History

For thousands of years, Native Americans inhabited the region. The Adena culture built a large mound at the future site of McKees Rocks. The mound, a burial site, was augmented in later years by members of the Hopewell culture.^[2] Much later, it was considered by George Washington as a possible location for Fort Pitt, which was eventually built on the site of the destroyed French Fort Duquesne in what is now Pittsburgh's Point State Park.^[3]

The borough derives its name from Alexander McKee, to whom a 1,300-acre (530 ha) tract of land was given in 1764, and from a rocky projection into the river at this site. In 1769, McKees Rocks officially got its name on a deed,^[4] and that year is considered to be its founding date 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKees_Rocks,_Pennsylvania

So now we all know....

Is there a whole falls?

This is the waterfall. 

But we had miles to go and places to be, specifically a campground.  When you travel in a rather spontaneous fashion, you actually spend more time than you should finding places to park and plug in for the night.  If we were with our husbands, there would have been words. 

But we found the whole process very funny as we drove through Shikellamy State park (with no camping) to the RV campground with camping-  “Oh, look- it’s right across the street!”   Fantasy Island campground, no less.  

http://www.fantasyislandcampground.com/

Not quite a fantasy- wifi didn't work and my shower drilled holes in my skin but it was a place to park Clyde and our weary heads. 

And on the shore as the West Branch meets the rest of the Sesquehanna River- we watched youngsters on water craft cavort under the multiple bridges in the orange setting sun.  A lovely first day.  

And the first of many names we could not pronounce- Shikellamy?