A walk down Memory Lane

Tom in front of the house he grew up in on Continental Lane in Titusville, NJ



We took a walk down Memory Lane on the way to my Uncle Don’s in Middletown, DE. Growing up in Titusville, Tom and I had both spent lots and lots of time in Washington Crossing State Park, both as young kids with our families, and as teenagers as we frequently had cross country practices in the park. We decided that the parking lot by the bridge was a good place to check and make sure our transmission fluid wasn’t black, so we parked and checked. The transmission fluid seemed to be fine, and the truck was running well, so we took the dogs on a hike down Continental Lane, the track that Washington’s troops followed on their December 26, 1776, march from the site of the Delaware River crossing to Trenton, for what some historians say was a turning point in the Revolutionary War. We left the park at the end of the Continental Lane trail, and took pictures of the house where Tom grew up which is also, not coincidentally, on Continental Lane. We hiked back to the truck with three tired dogs, and headed down Rt. 29 to pick up I-95 on our way to DE. We took a minor detour and stopped at a transmission shop for another well-child checkup of the transmission since we were worried about residual damage from the miserable drive the night before, but that tech also declared the transmission healthy, so we were free and clear for the rest of the way to Uncle Don’s.

View from the Rt. 29 pedestrian overpass - Delaware & Raritan canal in the foreground, our truck in the Washington Crossing Park parking lot, with the Delaware River and the Washington Crossing Bridge in the background