The week before I was to leave, the DC area was having record-breaking temps...over 100 degree days with close to 100% humidity. Apparently July and August are not the smartest times to visit our nation's capital. Oh, well, I figured any temp is fine for visiting....not like I am moving there!
I flew out last Wednesday night....11:00 pm flight....hanging out in the airport with weary travelers, parents with children and 20-somethings with their e cigarettes hanging out of their mouths. Two blissfully uneventful flights later, I landed at 9:00am eastern time in Baltimore. I'd never been to Baltimore.....within hours I had been in Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia. Interesting how close the East Coast states are and how easily one can travel from one to another as compared to the West Coast.
On the way from Baltmore to Virginia, where GF lives, we stopped at Harper's Ferry, WV for lunch and site-seeing. It was amazing being right there in the location of the John Brown raid, which basically started the Civil War. Harper's Ferry was also the starting point of Lewis and Clark's expedition - which ended over in the area I call home, and the site where the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers converge. Thomas Jefferson declared that the view was worth crossing the Atlantic. Unfortunately, I only had my camera phone with me, but still, got some decent shots.
Jefferson Rock:
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I'm so jealous.
[pout, pout]
Harper's Ferry is just a few miles from my Mom's hometown, Martinsburg, WV. It is a beautiful area of the country and if you're a civil war nut like I am it is practically heaven! I love looking at the convergence of the two rivers. Family lore has it that my great uncle ( a commericial photographer) crawled out on a bridge over the river to photograph a big flood early last century. Shortly after he crawled safely off, the bridge was swept away. His photos are in the archives at WVU. Someday I hope to go find that picture
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