Horsham, PA: Molly & Spanny Round 2

When we last left Molly Gove we were just embarking on our adventures way back in August.  We visited her and her family in Camden, Maine and helped her build a cornhole set for her high school reunion.  After traveling to our first farm and making a pit stop in CT to visit Curt's parents the next stop on our trip brought us to Delaware to stay with Molly's boyfriend, Patrick Spanninger (aka Spanny).  We helped him conduct agricultural science at the University of Delaware and he introduced us to the concept of couchsurfing, which ended up being a great way for us to meet people and save some money on our trip.

We're now in Horsham, PA staying with both Molly AND Spanny, all at the same time!  Horsham marks the last new frontier for us (on this trip at least) and it seems fitting we ended up with friends that helped us get our trip off to the right start.  When we arrived in Horsham Molly busted out the old cornhole set and we played a few games while we waited for Spanny to return home from a long day of science conducting.  He's still doing his thing at the University of Delaware and Molly is in town to go to nursing school.  While we're bummed we won't be seeing them in Burlington any time soon we're glad that they at least get to be with each other.

We had some drinks in the backyard (including an awesome dandelion wine!) and met neighbor Bill who regaled us with stories of attending Grateful Dead shows in his youth.  The next day we were fortunate enough to become Spanny's farmhands yet again as he continued his experiments in the field. Last time we saw him we helped him plant a bunch of lettuce and spinach.  This time around we helped him and his accomplice Rafi plant some tomatoes.  The experiment was the same as last time- plant crops and then spray them with different levels of E. coli to see what effect it has on the fruits.  Luckily none of the plants had been sprayed yet and we were able to help ourselves to a harvest of green tomatoes which Molly fried up that night for dinner.  Yum!

After science time we got treated to some rope-swing action before heading home.  The pond was owned by the DuPont family (same ones from that big company) but no one was there and we had a refreshing swim with some great rope swinging!  Check out the video of Molly multi-tasking below!

The next morning we went for a short hike with Molly and Turbo (Spanny had more science conducting to do) and then hit the road.  Back to CT to spend the next few days at Curt's parents' house.  Even though we're done going to new places it's always nice to see familiar faces!  And we're still on vacation 'til we get back to Burlington! Check out some more pics here on the Facebook, All Good and Horsham!