Thanks, maeve, for refreshing part 1.

Sorry, EBarnacle, but our schedule didn't permit a side trip into NY.

We visited the Dorflinger Glass Museum in Milburn. The glass is beautiful, and was esp. interesting because I have a small collection of cut glass. After the visit, we sat on a bench near the lake on the grounds. It too, was beautiful, and so serene.

At one point, driving down a narrow, two-lane road with no lines on it, I said I felt like I had gone back 50 years. We may have because the Garmin bit the dust, and then a digital camera died. Shades of the Twilight Zone? We tried to use a smartphone to direct us from Philadelphia to Baltimore, and it sent us via two-lane highways. After a while I said, "Surely there's an interstate between Philadelphia and Baltimore," but nobody would listen to me. After a long time, the app "came out of it" and realized that we could get on I-95.

I recommend a visit to the historic town of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, where we stayed for a while. A restaurant called "Moya" had the most pleasant atmosphere of any on the trip - good food, and pleasant traditional music such as lute music or Andean panpipes.   

Three times in the course of the trip, I was able to get in the shade of a big tree and play music on my recorder. The music seems to please people, and it restoreth my soul, which can get frazzled by things like neurotic Garmins. The first time to play was on the bank the Egg Harbor River, a fast, clear stream leaving the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. (The water was dyed dark by the pines.) This was in a park with the ruins of a 18th C. iron old smelter and many large shade trees. New Jersey is not all the drug-ravaged, industrial wasteland it's cracked up to be.

The other times were at the Red Caboose Motel, where we stayed overnight in an actual caboose, and at Valley Forge. My husband says the recorder sounds very different out of doors - an interesting observation. Maybe somebody should make a CD of recorders played out of doors.

Next trip - the Texas Toot, a weeklong workshop of early music.