Pennsylvania - Clearfield

Travel Day, 10.29.2018

Hyannis to Clearfield, PA: 520 Km Travel distance
BestWestern Plus Accommodations: $102 USD (including taxes)

Today is a travel day and just a whistle stop on the way to Chicago.
I am sure there isn't a straight section of road in all of Pennsylvania. Rolling hills with trees lining the roadside. Pennsylvania is an Amish State, so there was lots of collective farms everywhere we drove through. The trees were still loaded with lots of leaves and in the process of changing colours. I didn't think that we would be seeing the fall colors this late in the season.


Pennsylvania Facts and Trivia
1. Pennsylvania is the first state of the fifty United States to list their
web site URL on a license plate.
2. In 1909 the first baseball stadium was built in Pittsburgh.
3. Hershey is considered the Chocolate Capital of the United States.
4. In 1913 the first automobile service station opened in Pittsburgh.
5. In 1946 Philadelphia became home to the first computer.
6. The first daily newspaper was published in Philadelphia on Sept.
21, 1784.
7. In Philadelphia in 1775 Johann Behrent built the first piano in
America calling it under the name "Piano Forte."
8. Philadelphia is the site of the first presidential mansion.
9. Betsy Ross made the first American flag in Philadelphia.
10. "Doctor, if you don't give me something to help me breathe, I'm
going to stop!" came the urgent cry of 16-year old Frederick Gable
of Loganville. Vowing not to lose another patient to pneumonia,
Dr. George Holtzapple successfully created the first application of
oxygen, thus saving his patient's life and winning international
fame through his discovery. The year was 1885.
11. Philadelphia is home to the cheesesteak sandwich, water ice, soft
pretzels, and TastyKakes.
12. The town of Franklin became a center for worldwide oil
production following Colonel Edwin Drake's discovery of oil in
nearby Titusville.
13. The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia in
1776.
14. Philadelphia is home to the Liberty Bell.
15. The Liberty Tunnel in Pittsburgh opened in 1924. At that time the
5,700 foot facility was the longest artificially ventilated
automobile tunnel in the world.
16. Pennsylvania is the only original colony not bordered by the
Atlantic Ocean.
17. Benjamin Franklin founded the Philadelphia Zoo, the first public
zoo in the United States.
18. Actor Jimmy Stewart was born and raised in the town of Indiana.
19. Pittsburgh is famous for manufacturing steel. Its professional
football team is named the Pittsburgh Steelers.
20. Philadelphia was once the United States capital city.
21. George G. Blaisdell founded Zippo Manufacturing of Bradford in
late 1932. He started with a simple idea: create a product that
answers a real need, design it to work, and guarantee it to last.

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