Longwood Gardens Makes Me Long For Spring

Winter has been behaving strangely. Snow in December. Sixty degrees in February. And now, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, we’ll be wearing shorts in March. If spring comes as early and as hot as predicted, I’ll be heading back to Longwood Gardens in the small town of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

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Between Pennsylvania and New Jersey: Amish, Alpacas & the Poconos

I recently discovered two new joys of road-tripping: I-80 between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and gas station potato chips. Not just any potato chips, but artificially flavored Italian Hoagie chips by PrimoHoagies. Do they taste like a hoagie? No. Yet, it makes your breath smell like you ate a footlong. How? Pennsylvania magic.

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