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Local Flavor young boys in the seat in front of We shared some laughs about
us, and one of them turned around visiting the Cape Cod potato chip
and said, “Hey Lady, it helps if you factory when we were in Cape
by Valerie Nusbaum
scream.” It didn’t. The Tilt-A-Whirl Cod. We could smell those chips
is my favorite ride, and we saved the frying from miles away, and we just
best for last, which proved to be a followed our noses to the plant. It’s
Last week, Randy and I drove parents and my brother. Randy had bad idea, because when we got to it, fun to sample everything, and we
up to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, never been at all, so the two of us the ride was on fire. Upon reflection, did. There’s a pretzel factory in the
to visit a museum there. We were went exploring. We went up on this might have been a good thing. Poconos. I don’t really like pretzels,
very excited to be out and about a Friday, and as luck would have Still driving through Dillsburg, but when in Rome… The pretzel
because we don’t get out much it, Fridays were “Hot Dog Days.” we reflected on the last time we pizza wasn’t bad. Randy and I did a
anymore. Our last big road trip Every customer in the park got went to the drive-in. We saw the bit of Christmas shopping at the Utz
was the trip we took to Michigan a voucher for a free hot dog and sequel to the Halloween movies, and Snyder’s factories in Hanover,
two years ago. Other than a few drink. We always enjoy a freebie, so with a grown-up Jamie Lee Curtis, Pennsylvania. The folks on our
weekends in Ocean City, Maryland, this was an added bonus. Randy and so you know how long ago that gift list enjoy edible things because
and a short trip to Chincoteague, I laughed as we remembered riding was. I remembered that Randy was nobody our age wants more knick-
Virginia, we’ve been spending our the Himalaya. The guy in charge mortified because we hadn’t had knacks or decorations.
time in Thurmont. This is due to of the ride must have fallen asleep, dinner, and I begged him to stop at Wine tastings are another thing
family obligations, work schedules, because that thing went around and the Chinese restaurant in the strip we enjoy. Learning new things is
and not feeling up to traveling for around and up and down for a full next to the drive-in for some moo fun, and since my dad used to make
one reason or another. That day, we twenty-two minutes. I know because goo gai pan. Randy didn’t think that wine, I’ve always been interested
spent over an hour together in our I timed it. Going forward wasn’t so we should take food into the drive- in it. We enjoy tasting the wines,
truck, reminiscing about trips we’ve bad, but those backward rotations in, but I promised him it would be but neither Randy nor I are big
taken in the past. We miss those didn’t do my stomach any favors, fine. It was, but I still remember him drinkers, so the five full glasses I
days. especially with the free hot dog in trying to cover it up as we paid for was given at Elk Run Winery was
As we drove through Dillsburg, there. We got off the Himalaya and the movie. It turned out that the probably a mistake for me. Ditto
heading to Harrisburg, we headed toward the roller coaster. It dinner was better than the movie. for the thirty-four tastes with cheese
remembered the year we celebrated was my fault. I honestly thought we We love a factory tour or a good pairings at Linganore Winecellars.
my birthday by going to Williams were in line for the kiddie coaster tasting, and as we drove further We remembered visiting wineries
Grove amusement park. The park that I remembered riding as a kid. into Pennsylvania, we reminisced in Panama City, Florida, as well as
is closed now, but even back then it Nope. This was the full-size wooden about the time we did the Turkey in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I
had seen better days. I remembered coaster, and it shook and jarred us Hill experience. All the ice cream even brought home a bottle for my
going there as a child with my until our teeth hurt. There were two and iced tea samples we could mom, called Wanda’s a Fruitcake.
eat and drink for the low price of The time passed and we made
$9.99 each. We opted not to pay the it to the museum in Harrisburg.
additional fee for creating our own We probably should have kept
flavors. We’re basic chocolate and going. At the very least, we should
vanilla people. We could have gone have done some research on the
to the grocery store and bought two exhibits. The lady selling tickets
half gallons of Turkey Hill ice cream looked us over and felt the need to
for $5.00 on sale, but we reasoned tell us that the downstairs exhibit
that this had to be better. Besides, was “provocative.” She was correct.
we all know that a carton of ice When I stop shaking, I’m sure this
cream is no longer a half gallon. will be another funny memory for
Not even close. us.
