As we left Boston we slowly traveled over the mountains and valleys of Massachusetts for 7 hours until we dropped down to Harrisburg, Pa. We stayed overnight at Walmart and aw an interesting sight, an area reserved for Amish buggys in the parking lot:) We where the only rig in the lot and had a quiet nights sleep. Ver foggy the next morning as we finished our trip South to the beginning of the Blue Ridge Parkway. We stayed at a seasonal campground called 340 North (for the higway dsignation). Our stay was for 9 days and that was 3 days too many, we met some great Southern people and attended church twice but there wasn't enough to see in the area unless I drove 100 iles a day in different directions., but what we saw was very nice. It just so happened that one of my associates from work (WORK?-I'AM RETIRED) took her vacation in Shenandoah valley which was 28 miles North of us, so we met her family for dinner and chatted about both our trips....small world, after 8000 miles to met like that! What did we do for 9 days? here's a short list:
* Woodrow Wilson's house/museum-nice little tour for an afternoon
* Cultural farm center-working farm houses from Ireland, England, Germany and America, circa 16-17-18th centuries. Nice little hands on tour of the farms and blacksmith shop.
* Monticello-Jefferson's house-great tour, along with the tavern down the street! We also drove through the University of Virginia, which he designed. Downtown Charlotsville was tired looking as was the University but then it's about 150 years old!
* Blackfriar theatre-Saw a Shakespiarian play in the only replica of the indoor theatre used by old Shakes in London-good time-along with the rib dinner at the White Star mill.
* Luray caverns- very nice, great formations BUT the best part was your ticket gave you entrance to the old car museum and that was great, saw gars from 1890 to 1935, some models I had never heard of. Excellent.
* Appomattox-End of the Civil war where Lee surrendered to Grant. Actually didn't happen at the courthouse but one of the townspeoples house-he was a sugar commodities trader-rather nice house for the times.They had to print 28,000 parole papers for the captured soldiers they let go back to their families and farms, this was something i never earned in school. The park is well done, we now have seen the beginning and the end of the Civil War on this trip!
* D-Day memorial-haunting memorial of a great event in history, check the video! As interesting as the Vietnam Wall with sculptors, flags flowers and name plaques.
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