| Monday Starlite Diner, Allentown, PA Pretty unexceptional diner food. But Yocco's didn't serve breakfast. |
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| Roadside America Shartlesville, PA We added this to the itinerary after seeing it on one of those little pamphlets in the hotel lobby. Great addition. A huge miniature world. It's like an enormous model railroad layout with the railroad taking a backseat to the scenery. An added bonus was the nighttime scene (repeated every half-hour), where they slowly turn it into dusk, then night, then dawn, with a patriotic soundtrack and the Statue of Liberty and Jesus at one end. |
| Hershey Chocolate World Hershey, PA The plan was to get up really early to get down to York in time for a 10am candy factory tour. We threw out that tour so we could add Roadside America, and replaced it with Hershey's. WAYYY too much overhead. Takes a while to get to Hershey even from nearby highways. You park far away and brave crowds to ride on a conveyer belt and see fake factory operations. There's a "packaging activity"-- a long line to push a button that dumps kisses into a plastic container. It's there primarily to get you to buy an ID and a box of kisses. |
| Two more stops But I don't have pictures. We then went to York to visit the Stauffers outlet. Stauffers makes a ton of cookie-type things. We bought iced animal crackers, ginger snaps, banana cream sandwiches, strawberry cream sandwiches, strawberry cream wafers and a ton of vintage-ish candy. Then to Hanover, PA to the Snyder's factory outlet (the tour isn't offered on Mondays). Bought pretzely things and about 10 different mini-bags of flavored potato chips. Didn't get a chance to do the Utz tour in Hanover-- I had to get back by 6, and I was concerned about the traffic. Next time. Nah, probably not-- I was ripping my hair out just trying to get through that dinky town to the highway. Can't imagine doing that again. |