Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Just Traveling Along

Today's Prompt for Home Sweet Home Blogging Challenge!

If Andre visits your Town, what are some places/sites/locations he should visit?

2. Famous locations or places to see in the town/area

1. 16 Miles South of me there is the Oil Creek Railroad, and Oil Creek Park. The Railroad is an original train. I road it once. It is a pleasant ride through the Oil Creek valley scenery. It is overgrown and you can see fisher men on oil creek, deer in the forests along the way, as well as other native wildlife and birds. On the route you can see abandoned mines and machinery from glory days of oil. There is a stop along the way at the museum. There are Trails to ride with bikes, and hike, and a museum. If you want, you can explore the trails by bike or on foot and catch the train half-way through to its' home destination. You can board the train and ride the rest of the way in.

2. 5 miles northwest of me, there is a small town with a museum. It has history of the area and the town's highlighted history.

3. 35 miles northwest (?) there is the peninsula which has beaches. Every year there is a tall ship festival. And it is home to the city's tall ship. Big shopping area too. People come down from Canada to shop in the mall. The shopping center in the area is quite large with lots of stores. Before Covid there were two famous bookstores. I don't think they are there anymore.

If you like zoo's, there is a zoo there. It is part of a national zoo system that breeds animals to release into the wild. Every year they get different animals from other zoos to raise during the summer months. They are trying to help species, that are endangered. I haven't been there in a few years; before covid there was a Australian part, that you could walk through, with parrots to feed and young kangaroo's to pet and feed.

4. 3 miles or so southwest is a lake. There are boat rentals, a restaurant, summer rental cottages, a swimming beach, and souvenir shop, roller skating rink, laundromat. In very recent years small health clinics run by two or three Doctors are springing up in small communities. Many of the Doctors are Osteopaths educated in largest city, 35 miles northwest.

5. 16 miles east is a small city with grocery shopping, many different fast-food places, a hospital, and a mile or so further a Walmart.

And to get to any of those places are rolling hills, lots of young forests, Amish farms with Amish stores, small communities with a local store or churches. Just scenery pleasant to view as you travel along. Some roads follow French creek. You will see small businesses along the way. If it is summer, residential stands along the road selling fresh produce. Farm machinery sales, small communities selling soft serve ice cream if you are traveling.

We are close to route 8 which has lots of different small communities along the way. Route 8 is also considered the William Flynn highway. Route 8 will take you to Titusville where the Oil Creek Railroad resides complete with an over-night motel where you can sleep in a train car. Route 8 also runs through Wattsburg borough, first settled in 1833, which was once a thriving stagecoach stop. It also has a trading post. Route 8 merges for short spaces with other routes along the way.

Lots of route signs. You won't get lost.

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