Ramblings from a biker boy

Today I did a short (25 miles roundtrip) daytrip to Hershey primarily to check out Hershey’s Chocolate World. The weather was beautiful – an almost cloudless blue sky with the sun shining strongly and just a light breeze. The temperature was in the low 80s (that is around 27 degrees Celsius), so nothing to complain about there either.

When I got to Hershey and the Chocolate World, it turned out that there were a few other people who had decided to do the same thing.

Well, a lot were visiting the Hersheypark as well. Regardless, the parking lot were huge and there were cars and buses as far as I could see… Fortunately, there was a lot of things to do:

Do you think the Chocolate World and Hersheypark is popular with kid families? I would say so – just have a look at this stroller “parking lot” outside the Chocolate World.

There was also a Barking Lot next to the parking lot, and there was definitely a lot of barking going on there. Not that I understand why you would bring your dog along when you go to an amusement park…

I took the free tour, which starts out with some information on the origins of the Hershey company and city – turns out that the city was more or less developed by the company for their employees. Then the tour takes you through how the cacao bean is harvested etc. until you get to jump in a cart that takes you on a ride showing what happens in the Hershey factory – all to a soundtrack of happy, happy songs about Hershey’s milk chocolate. It even comes complete with singing cows:

It was quite an experience – complete with having your picture taken at the end (you can buy it when you exit – I didn’t). When you exit, you then come out into a Hershey “mall” where you can buy anything Hershey…

After having done Chocolate World, I headed back to Chocolate Avenue and started riding back to the motel.

All in all, it was a good day.