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The Kiski Sibling Road Trip, Part I

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I thought I would do this post in two parts since I have a lot of photos to share.

Monday September 11, 2023 I met up with my brother and sister in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to embark on a road trip to Saltsburg, PA to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony/dedication ceremony on Tuesday September 12, 2023 of a classroom at The Kiski School where my father, Raoul A. Davis, Sr. was the first African American graduate (1950). I’ll tell you more about that in the next post but in this post I will just share some photos from our first sibling road trip in over 20 years!

Here we are in my brother’s car headed out on our 5+ hour road trip. My beautiful sister wasn’t ready for the impromptu photo (I surprised her) so here are the sections of the photo of my brother and I:

We stopped along the way for a meal/snack and here are a couple of the poor nutritional choice we made (ha!) – well it was a road trip and you have to enjoy some “road trip food” at truck stops when you roadtripping!

Besides chatting with my brother and sister on the road trip, I did try to be productive as a passenger and I worked on some English Paper Piecing hexagons during the trip for the quilt I will someday finish (see post The Horizontal Diaries, January 30, 2023):

After a long day of road tripping, we stayed overnight in a hotel in Pittsburg, PA and then in the mid morning headed to Saltsburg, PA for the ribbon cutting ceremony. But first when we got to Saltsburg we had lunch at a delightful little cafe in downtown Saltsburg:

Downtown Saltsburg looked like a time capsule from the 1940s/1950s/1960s – here is the “old school” parking meter we put a quarter in (yes one quarter) to pay for our parking (I thought it needed of a B&W photo):

Here we are outside the cafe before heading in for lunch dressed for the ribbon cutting ceremony:

It was an awesome roadtrip with more awesomeness to come later that day at The Kiski School!

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18 thoughts on “The Kiski Sibling Road Trip, Part I”

  2. May we know the sibling order? May I guess? You or your brother is the youngest and your sister is hands down the eldest – If I’m wrong on the eldest then, my own elder status instinct has gotten very rusty over the years, but I’m happy to be corrected if necessary!
    You guys are gorgeous.
    🙂

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    1. Oh Laura – I would run and give you a hug if we were in person – ha!
      Me = oldest
      Sister = middle (5 years younger than me)
      Brother = youngest (13 years younger than me)
      Yes I am the crusty oldest – did you not see all that gray hair..which over the last year or so keeps popping up!
      But the rest of the day I will be full of myself from your comments 😉

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  3. How nice to do this road trip. But what is the meaning of ribbon cutting ceremony? The bakery looks great and a little bit like the owners have austrian roots? The bakery looks like that. Have fun with your siblings!

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  6. I have always maintained that travel food (anything you eat on the way somewhere, or in the car) is nutritionally superior to any ‘proper’ food, and contains no calories. I will defend this position to the last doughnut/sausage roll/potato chip.

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