Finally- Gettysburg

Our plan was to go north to Philadelphia and pick up a floor loom and cram it into Clyde's back seat.  Time got away and the loom owner and I weren’t able to exchange exact dimensions in time so the loom wasn’t included in our trek. But we had already decided to take the wandering road west  even if we went to Phillie so, on our way west to South Dakota, we  headed north from Northern Virginia.

First stop- Gettysburg. 


For fifteen years I lived three hours from the greatest Civil War battlefield in America and failed to visit it. I even had a friend who is a civil war expert and I failed to make plans for a private tour.  So it only seemed right to at least drive through and take a photo or two.

There's Clyde and Janet taking in the sights.

Terrible light but compelling monuments. 

 Janet had recently seen a History Channel show so obviously she was our resident expert and said helpful things like, “Oh, look. Those are the fences they talked about.” Or “Well, that must be the ridge where stuff happened.” and “That’s the very important ditch.”  It was so very  educational. 




We did find a monument with a fabulous statue of General Andrew A. Humphreys, one of the many “famous” Army generals who now populate the hallowed grounds. 

Thank you, Jennifer for the photo
  http://www.drawthesword.goellnitz.org/

Check out the boots....

We gazed up at the stalwart general who gazes over the battlefield where he achieved infamy.  Then in one voice, we pronounced, “Cool boots.”  Gales of laughter- sorry, Civil War buffs, we were a bit irreverent. And at the exact same moment.