Vacation a la Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I noted that it's our plan to head to D.C. in the car and haul my bike along. I leave it to She Says to let me know whether there are some dates that are best for enjoying the big city - parades, flower festivals, that sort of thing. But this morning Eryn and I had an idea. We're going to add Hershey, PA to the trip and visit a chocolate factory. Ever since Klund never told us about his supporting role in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we've been preparing for the possibility he might invite us to come down to St. Peter and watch his play. We've read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We've started on the Great Glass Elevator, for context. Talked about the original movie. And watched the Depp version. Now, thanks to Klund, we're going to add a trip to a real chocolate factory on our vacation, sans the mountain of fudge and cotton candy sheep.

As it's shaping up, I think our itenery will be something like the following - which might just put us in the nine-day range we're aiming for, perhaps more if we take the trip out and back a little slower than we intended. But then I picked up an extra week of vacation this year, so who cares how long it takes:

• Visit my aunt in Indianapolis (if she's home)
• While in her neighborhood, stop at Turkey Run Inn Park, which I remember from my time visiting her as being beautiful and next to an artist village, second in interest only to the coeds of Bloomington, who had killer accents
• Stop in Cumberland, MD, drop me off on my bike, and spend two days pedaling through Maryland and West Virginia into D.C. while Pooteewheet and Eryn drive sag
• D.C. for a day or more, mostly checking out things Eryn might enjoy and remember that aren't zoos
• Hershey, PA and the Hershey Factory on the way home

I'm sure there are other things to catch on the way out and back that I haven't considered yet, particularly if we're driving.