I think it’s only fair to warn you up front that this is going to be a long post! I decided to stay in Harpers Ferry for another day, and to make a day trip to Washington DC. There’s just so much to see and do in DC that it would have been a shame to miss it, and as it turns out, you can do a lot in one day, because many major attractions are close and the DC…
I’m starting a new section called ‘Ironies and Oddities’ to capture signs and other things that strike me as being a little bit odd. The first picture is from Harper’s Ferry, WV. If this is an example of Dulyea’s “custom design,” I might find someone else…
I visited Harpers Ferry in northern West Virginia once before, when I lived in the US, and decided to return on this trip for several reasons. The Shenandoah River valley is beautiful and peaceful, two things that I want to be a part of my journey. But the history of the area is the primary reason to come here. The fact that it’s at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers has made it of strategic importance in both colonization…
The last couple of days have mostly been driving days for me. My life in Australia was rather sedentary, in the last few years spent almost entirely in one city with only rare excursions to other places, and those mostly for work. So I was feeling the need to Just Drive, to put miles behind me and feel myself moving forward. Not even toward anything or any place specific, just forward! I spent my first night on the road camped…
This afternoon I visited the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln near Hodgenville, KY. I suppose that what I know about Lincoln is mainly what I learned as a student, just briefly that he was born in a log cabin, but more about his time as president and his role in the Civil War and Emancipation. But I’ve never heard the story of his family, and the early years he spent in Kentucky. His grandfather, also named Abraham, was a true pioneer, it…