Pennsylvania – The Adventuring Heidi

May 25, 2026

Western PA Road Trip – Part 4: Johnstown Flood National Memorial & Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site

May 2, 2026 Today would be the day… I finally would visit my 100th National Park Service unit! I ideally would have accomplished this in…

May 18, 2026

Western PA Road Trip – Part 3: Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Friendship Hill National Historic Site, and on top of Maryland at Hoye Crest

May 1, 2026 After wrapping up Cucumber Falls (this is a continuation of a very busy day of exploring, and I split the day into…

May 11, 2026

Western PA Road Trip – Part 2: On Top of Pennsylvania at Mount Davis, Fallingwater, & Ohiopyle State Park

May 1, 2026 Let’s get this western Pennsylvania exploration on the road! After three days in Pittsburgh for a conference, along with visiting the Flight…

May 6, 2026

Western PA Road Trip – Part 1: Pittsburgh & Flight 93 National Memorial

There’s just some places that will never make my short-list of places to visit. Not necessarily because they’re bad, but because they have to compete…

August 22, 2019

Throwback Thursday: Exploring the town burning from below – Centralia, PA

I originally wrote this blog in July 2013 after visiting Centralia, PA on my way to a mountain bike race in Allentown on my cycling…