Delaware Water Gap and the Beginnings of Fall

Cafe Duet, Stroudsburg PA

Tuesday, September 12, 2017--Off from Allentown by 10 AM heading for our morning coffee, the Delaware Water Gap and Craryville, NY.  First stop, Stroudsburg, PA where we left the Interstate for coffee.  Cafe Duet on one of the town's 19th century squares provided good coffee, though the barista was not up to making the art for Ben's XXdry.  She had just started two weeks ago and remarked "that's too much pressure!"  The coffee was good and you could say the swirl on the top was the beginnings of a cloud.

A small Indian head, but there are those who love it.

From there we decided to visit the Delaware Water Gap, a 19th century tourist destination that appears much less impressive now than it probably did in 1877.  It's physically the gap where the Delaware River cuts through the mountains leaving interesting stressed rock formations and a supposed Indian head in the formation.  The head is visible,(see picture) but it is not as large nor as impressive as the now fallen Old Man of the Mountains in New Hampshire.

We headed north through the Gap area National Park and then into NY.  We found going through two toll booths that our EZPass wasn't working, so a stop at Walmart (worrying about the hives we might get) procured a new one.  This time not Maryland's, but Pennsylvania's,   And no monthly service charge!  We will turn in the Maryland one after we return home with its dead battery.  Now we are safe from dealing with EZPass bureaucracy from a failed pass!

The deer are faintly visible to the right.

Lovely dinner with our friends David and Andy at their place in Craryville on its mountainside.  Our evening wine outside gave us a good view of the invading pests of the local deer herd on the other side of the meadows.  But otherwise the evening was just perfect with the setting sun and the start of the Fall colors,.

Roast heritage pork chops, sautéed zucchini, local heirloom tomato and mozzarella salad, and a pleasant sancerre.  Youghurt and fresh fruit for dessert.