Four score and seven . . . No . . . about two years ago, Bob, Sally, and her father John, left on a cross country trip to visit friends and national parks. We traveled in a 2016 24′ Forest River Sunseeker RV with a Mercedes 3.0 liter diesel powered Continue Reading
USA 2017
04/22. Air & Space Museum
Sat. 4/22. Took the Metro to the Air & Space (Smithsonian) Museum. Free admission today! Toured the museum and saw the IMAX movie, D-Day. SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with suborbital flight capability at speeds of up to 900 m/s (3,000 ft/s), using a hybrid rocket motor. The Continue Reading
04/23. Manassas, VA
Sun. 4/23. Did 2 Park Ranger led walks at Manassas National Battlefield Park, VA. Henry House Hill is a location near Bull Run in Virginia, with a slow, constant rise toward the south over a length of approximately 730 meters. This hill was an important site of the battles of Continue Reading
04/24 – 5/1. Shenandoah, plus
Mon. 4/24. Rest/work day. Tues. 4/25. Drove Skyline Drive to Front Royal, VA. Toured Skyline Caverns—1 of 7 in the world with “cave flowers” (anthodites) (3 caves not open to public, 1 in France) and it has many rooms full, not just a few. They are in the part of Continue Reading
05/02-7. Williamsburg, plus
Tues. 5/2. Richmond VA—visited the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar. It interprets the Civil War from perspective of Union, Confederate & African-American, in 1861 Tredegar Gun Foundry; war’s causes, course, legacies thru films, interactive displays, artifacts; picturesque views of James River. Richmond was the center of iron manufacture Continue Reading