Pennsylvania

Also known as the roadkill state, or the state with worse roads than California. Lessons I have learned so far:
don't look at potholes; they don't like it. If you don't look at them, they won't jump up and grab you.
Public libraries are wonderful institutions, cheaper and quieter than any other public place you can use a computer to send emergency video of the horse you've just filmed to the people 2,998 miles away who actually know what they are doing.
Mountains - the map says they're here, but each time we get to the top of one of these charming little hills I look everywhere, but I can't see them.