5333 miles...

Stayed the night at Super 8 motel outside of Mansfield Ohio sitting in a Denny's. (Denny's is my friend:)

Yesterday I went to Hershey Pennsylvania a beautiful town with a wonderful history and the home of Hershey chocolate, my intention to spread some of Margie's ashes in a place very close to her heart.
The factory is in the middle of town and so the town smelled like chocolate when I drove through it the night before.
There is Hershey park a very large amusement park with 12 roller coasters of all shapes and sizes, plenty of rides and rather expensive for the day. I was not into rides so it wasn't on my agenda.

Chocolate World gives you hands on approach to making your own chocolate bar and has a free tour of the chocolate process.

The Hershey Hotel, a beautiful and I bet expensive place to stay.

The Hershey gardens very beautiful botanical garden up by the hotel and home to many roses.

The entire town has something to see from the Hershey shaped street lights to friendly people, it's very much a community atmosphere that survives on the tourist element.

The Hershey Museum, a complete history of the Hershey family and the amazing things they did for the community, I did not take the tour of the museum but here are a couple of history facts I learned.

Milton Hershey and his wife could not have children of their own so they adopted 2 kids and because of their love for children they started a school for kids who could not afford it and all the children had to do was keep a certain grade point average and they would be able to afford grants or have their school all payed for by the Milton foundation.
There is a cancelled check in the museum for a ticket aboard the Titanic, they were supposed to travel on it's maiden voyage but his wife became ill so he cancelled their trip, if they had been on board the Hershey legacy might not exist today.

After walking around awhile I needed to find a place for Margie.

I had shared my story with a few people so far everyone I have met is surprised about what I am doing and really thinks it is a great way to honor her, some even made suggestions of places for her ashes to be poured.
I was on my way back to my car but decided to get some pictures of the hotel before I left, so I took a bus up there and on my way met up with a bus driver who suggested a great place, he said all the suggestions given to me were good but they were outside of town and he said I should keep her in town with the chocolate he said there was no reason I could not pour her ashes here. He told me about this hedge cut in the words of Hershey Coco by the factory so I went there and it was perfect so Margie is in the home of chocolate and roses.
What better place to climax this story, I still have a few places to to go and nights to sleep before I am home but I did what I intended, I honored her and me...