There's No Place Like Home!

  Dorothy was right! There's no place like home
and it's good to be back after spending the past
eleven days "down south."
   Our last day below the Mason/Dixon Line
found us in Luray, Virginia where we stopped
to tour the Luray Caverns.
    It was there, somewhere between the stalactites
and stalagmites, that I thought about the
similarities between that area and ours!
    For instance, while I was standing 160 feet
below the surface walking about a mile through
the rock formations it was likely that somebody
who spoke with a "southern twang" was walking
underneath Scranton  at the Lackawanna Coal
Mine Tour.
    By the way the caverns and the coal mine
share similar constant temperates in the 50s.
    While some of you were taking in "The Hunger
Games" at Cinemark or Wilkes-Barre's Movies
14, a similar crowd was gathered at the Page
Theaters 4 in Luray to see the same flick or one
of the other six selections. (Seems the theater
was named before the extra two screens were
added!)
    In Atlanta we got to see penguins at the
Georgia Aquarium.
    You can see Penguins in Wilkes-Barre
although they're the kind that play hockey!
    Back to Luray...... you can pick up  Interstate
81 which runs which runs through that area and ours.
    People driving here and there get to dodge
heavy truck traffic and all sorts of never
ending road repair projects.
      Of course there are differences too!
      It was warm in both areas. About 75 degrees.
      That was the outside temperature in Luray
and the inside the car temperature as we
crossed the Maryland State Line back into
Pennsylvania.
       Bottom line.....there's a lot to enjoy in
both places!
       I hope you do or will and that all your
NEWS is good!