Today was a time for restocking the pantry so the nearest WM supercenter was found 15 miles north of our campsite in Titusville, PA. Titusville is known as the birthplace of the oil industry in America as the first lamp oil was found in a natural oil spring near here. Then in 1859 Edwin L Drake successfully drilled the first producing well just south of town.
The drive today was also very scenic as this part of PA is mountainous and tree covered. The roads, not being Interstate that are limited to 5% & 6% grades, have grades of 8% & 9%. Monday on our drive here with the trailer we encountered those same grades and the downhills were more difficult than the uphill. Our truck does great on Interstate by automatically downshifting to maintain speed on the 5% & 6% grades without needing to use brakes. Just before we arrived at our campsite we had a few miles of 9% downhill with the speed posted for trucks at 20 mph. I was down in 1st gear and still had to hit the brakes occasionally to maintain that speed and keep the RPMs down.
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