What to do in PA?
I’ve had a busy day so far. This is the first chance I’ve had to stop and catch a quick break from work.
So…does anybody know anything fun to do in State College, PA? I’m going there for a conference this summer, and it’s kind of a long conference and I’m the only one going from my work, so I won’t have anybody to hang out with. And seriously, people, it’s not like I’m going to make friends with any other conference attendees. I’m too scared of strangers for that. I wonder if that has to do with the insane amount of “stranger danger” anti-kidnapping training that went on in elementary school. Does that still happen? It seemed like there was a rash of kidnappings in my youth, and I don’t hear about them (or read about them on milk cartons) so much anymore.
So anyway, no on the strangers, yes on the other interesting activities. Are there good museums there that are open in the evenings? I can’t stray out of State College, since I won’t have a car and I’ll be busy with the conference for most of the time. I really like going to museums by myself, because I don’t feel pressured by anyone to go too fast or stay longer than I want to.
Oooh, I just saw that the hotel I’ll be at has a fitness center. That’s good to know. Conference food is always so junky, it’ll be good to have an opportunity to work some of it off.
Hang out with my UBER-cool cousin, who resides in State College? Seriously, state college is pretty much your average “college town”. I’d be happy to ask my cousin for some recommendations….
Too bad you can’t get to Hershey and tour the (fake) chocolate factory. I went to a track meet in Hershey when I was in…junior high, maybe, and back then you could still tour areas of the actual factory. I’m told that now all you can do is walk through a Disney-fied version built on a soundstage, or something.
I’ll never forget the big chutes coming down from the factory ceiling that were filling huge laundry bins with broken chocolate bars. So cool. All we were missing was Gene Wilder and a bunch of midg…er, little peo…er, whatever.
I went on the Hershey Factory Fun Ride (or whatever it is called) about five or six years ago, and it was stoopid. You do get a free chocolate bar at the end.