Gettysburg and Washington, D.C.

We spent a few days at Gettysburg over the Veterans Day weekend. The weather was sunny and not too cold, so was great for viewing the battlefields. We did some walking plus on Saturday did the auto tour. There are several auto tour CD's available for sale at the visitor center. The National Park Service has posted auto tour signs providing directions to the various areas. It can take 3 or 4 hours to see all of the items on the auto tour, especially if you get out and do some of the walking like to Round Top.

There is a great museum at the NPS visitor center. We sure learned a lot about the battle that took place in Gettysburg on July 1,2,3 of 1963. It was the turning point in the war for the north. We bought a book 'Killer Angels', which we're reading.

After Gettysburg, we headed south to Washington, D.C. We're actually staying about 30 miles north in Maryland at Fort Meade. General George Meade was given the command of the army of the Potomoc (north) 2 days before the Gettysurg battle.

We've taken the train to Washington, D.C. every day for the past five days and we're pooped from all of the sightseeing we've done. The first day we went on the Capital tour, then walked down the mall to the World War II memorial and the Lincoln memorial, and then to the Vietnam memorial. On Tuesday, we did the Air and space museum, on Wednesday, the Natural history museum, on Thursday we did the Holocaust museum, the Washington monument, Arlington cemetary, and the White house visitor center. Friday, we visited the National Archives and the American History museum.

We're headed to Colonial Williamsburg on Sunday, so more on that in the next blog.