Harpers Ferry

Some more pics of H F

Winchester

Some more pics of Winchester

Winchester, Virginia

Did you ever come across someone who was definitely in the wrong profession? Well, there is this man at Harpers Ferry at the tourist information bureau, ...... Good lord! No personality, not that interested in being helpful, and he gave us wrong directions ! What's his job again...
We did get a laugh out of it in the end on our way to Winchester.

The only reason we were going was because I thought it was a pretty cool name - Winchester ...guns, ammo... And it was on the way to Front Royal.

What a beautiful downtown. Heck, we ended up getting a room here and going back downtown tonight for supper and to walk around.

Old Winchester is very historic, all the buildings are made of brick, and they have a pedestrian street that is great to walk thru and great eating.

We took lots of pics but I can only attach 4 or 5 per e mail

Harper's Ferry Aug 6th

Well, after a stop at Gettysburg, and keeping with the theme of the day so far, we decided to stop at Harper's Ferry......civil war, confederates....strategic position...Again, a really neat and interesting town. In addition to that, they serve the best BBQ beef burger at this pub....The town could be the scene of a good John Wayne, I mean, Clint Eastwood movie. It has quite the train bridges over the Potomac and shanadoah rivers. While we were there (for about 1.5 hours) there were 4 freight trains that went thru the town.

Gettysburg Aug 6th

From Harrisburg, Pa we headed towards Gettysburg. Not that we're much on American history, we thought it would be cool to see - and it was. A lot of old buildings, very period looking town, and just a neat place to walk around.

Most of the shops were military history related. We did get a pic of Abe himself discussing the declaration he was writing (four score and seven years ago...) with a buddy of his when this guy in a beige sweater came along, he stuck out like a sore thumb....

Harrisburg pics

Here are some pics of downtown tonight

Made it for today

Well that's it for today. Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
We left 7:30 this morning and got to Harrisburg, Pa at 4:30.

It was a pretty good drive actually. Once you crossed the Tappan Zee Bridger in Albany it's pretty straight forward. I find drivers are pretty courteousness and respectful overall but I could never imagine the number of trucks on the road.

Pa seems to have some really nice rolling hills and farmland.

We have a room right downtown in Harrisburg at the Comfort Inn so we are about to go for a walk around downtown !!