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It's good to be going home. Speedwell Store is a sight for sore eyes. Means we are only three miles away! It's been a great adventure and we've loved every minute but we're both looking forward to sitting our our own sofa. Had planned to stay put for a while but when...
Biography Video It's a very impressive building, this memorial to President McKinley. At the close of the Nineteenth Century he was a much beloved president. Then he was assassinated and the nation mourned. But then his memory was quickly overshadowed by the energy...
Enjoyed the drive across Pennsylvania, giving wide berth to Pittsburgh, staying on the back roads and drinking in the beauty of the rolling hills and autumn foliage. Didn't even realize it when we crossed the state line into Ohio.
As we wandered among the graves of the young men cut down in the heat of battle and leaving loved ones grieving at home, we pondered the inability of the national leaders to be unable to come to a resolution of the issues that divided them and brought our nation to...
Retirement Home Tour Video They were a military couple and it was not until Dwight Eisenhower was contemplating retirement did he and Mamie buy their first home. It was a farm near the Gettysburg Battlefield. They renovated the farm house as best they could and added...
Once again we opted for the Gettysburg National Military Park audio driving tour. It gave us insight into many of the sights we saw. As usual when we do these tours we frequently got out of the car and wandered around at the stops. We're trying to get a deeper...
Arrived in Gettysburg and spent most of this this beautiful afternoon at the visitor's center getting oriented. Visited the museum and the cyclorama. Got directions to this monument commemorating the contribution of the First Ohio Light Infantry Battery K. Steve's...
Peter and Kathy live on the outskirts of Washington DC and he works in the heart of the city. They graciously offered to give us a nighttime personally guided tour of the monuments in our national's capitol. It was Karen's first ever and Steve's first visit in many...
Mount Vernon, home of the First President George Washington, mecca to many Americans. The house tour was crowded but sitting on the porch gazing at the Potomac was relaxing. And listening to "Martha" talk, checking out the museum, and wandering among the outbuildings...
Thursday found us again listening to a CD and driving the Wilderness Battlefield Tour. Just after visiting the site of Grant's headquarters we stopped and parked outside the gates of Ellwood where Gen Warren had his headquarters. The house is open for tours only on...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.