{"id":17054,"date":"2022-06-13T19:47:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T23:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=17054"},"modified":"2022-06-13T19:48:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T23:48:42","slug":"travels-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/17054","title":{"rendered":"Travels: Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe, but we actually left the house for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p>It was weird.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not ok being indoors unmasked (and I&#8217;m never ok with crowded places). Luckily, we spent the majority of our time outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>We drove to Maine with my mother, and our first stop was a place we visited a decade ago: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcnr.pa.gov\/StateParks\/FindAPark\/HickoryRunStatePark\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Hickory Run State Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The main draw is the boulder field. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/52135183848\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_002\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52135183848_b1e67baee8.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_002\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I can hear you being unimpressed, so&#8230; do you see the people in the above picture?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/52135401494\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_001\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52135401494_9d5b0b14c4.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_001\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Does that help? Do you see the person in the red jacket? And all the people past them?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/52135163651\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_005\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52135163651_b6f3669897.jpg?resize=500%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" alt=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_005\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This picture of Michael? There are at least twelve people behind him to the left, and at least one behind him to the right.<\/p>\n<p>This boulder field is more than 20,000 years old. It&#8217;s a giant lake of boulders stretching 400 feet by 1,800 feet, and as deep as 12 feet in places.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/52134139442\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_026\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52134139442_2961814d4c.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_026\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very hard to walk on (I wished I&#8217;d had two hiking sticks and not just one) but very much worth it to go out even a few feet and to see just how stunning the boulder field truly is.<\/p>\n<p>Just don&#8217;t look down too closely.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/52135183783\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_010\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52135183783_9cce445f33.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_010\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So very many giant spiders.<\/p>\n<p>There are other things to do in the park, and we did manage  a brief hike.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_031-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_031.jpg?resize=400%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Shades of Death Trailhead Sign\" width=\"400\" height=\"180\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/52135183858\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_038\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52135183858_a536b5c4c8.jpg?resize=225%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"225\" height=\"500\" alt=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_038\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/52134139402\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_036\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52134139402_8253da936b.jpg?resize=225%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"225\" height=\"500\" alt=\"2022-05-28_Hickory_Run_036\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We would have taken a longer hike, but when it rained on us, we headed back.<\/p>\n<p>I did get this short clip of Sand Spring Run along the trail. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hickory Run State Park (2022-05-28)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cLTpB9askvw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe, but we actually left the house for an extended period of time. It was weird. I&#8217;m still not ok being indoors unmasked (and I&#8217;m never ok with crowded places). Luckily, we spent the majority of our time outdoors. We drove to Maine with my mother, and our first stop was a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1064,22,1058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pennsylvania","category-photos","category-travel-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-4r4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}