Subj : Re: Travels
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Thu Jun 25 2020 20:43:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 06-21-20  09:10 <=-

 > Good that you've not been in the middle of the mess... but the
 > destruction is indeed sad...

 JM> I never actually witnessed anything.  Just the aftermath.
 JM> I was out and about starting around 7 while the others were
 JM> resting. 

And you'd gone to bed long before anything was starting up, no doubt...
;) 

 > Almost a front row position on a sad part of history.... Bet you didn't
 > expect this history trip to turn out to be recent history in the making
 > when you first planned it....

 JM> Ya got that right.
 
Things don't always work as we plan.... ;)

 >  JM> Today is Norfolk then turn north to Yorktown tomorrow.
 > Staying pretty much to your itinerary, then...  :)
 JM> 
 JM> Pretty much.
 JM> The sites I was intending to see where open public areas,
 JM> state/national parks, etc.  Between the political unrest and Covid I
 JM> had to deal with fewer crowds and never had to hunt for a place to
 JM> park, etc.

So, some things worked out nicely...  :)

 JM> There were only two places I didn't get to visit.  
 JM> The road to Jamestown was closed and after walking along the road
 JM> for a good distance I asked a man coming back what was at the end of
 JM> the road and told nothing, it was all closed off.  So I turned around
 JM> and left. I could see way off in the distance the reconstructed
 JM> town, the three ships in port, etc but no way to get there.  And too
 JM> far for a photo.

At least you found out before you got all the way to the end of the
road... That'll have to be another trip, I guess... :)

 JM> The next bust was Mt Vernon, which has a tall brick
 JM> wall around it and had to pay to see even the exterior which the state
 JM> of VA had closed.   The last one was Arlington National Cemetery
 JM> which was closed "due to political unrest".

More for the next trip.... hopefully open next time.... :)

 JM> Gettysburg was huge!  After about 90 minutes of wandering about I
 JM> broke down and drove the rest of the tour.  Lots of monuments to
 JM> soldiers from NYS.  :)

Not surprising...  Sounds like you got a better deal there... ;)

 JM> I changed the last part of my trip when I couldn't get hold of the
 JM> person I planned to visit in Pittsburgh so headed toward home and
 JM> stumbled across Antietam.  Didn't know I was even near it.
 JM> There was a panoramic tower to view the battle site, erected in
 JM> 1893, but it was, of course, closed.  I would have loved to have seen
 JM> the field that way.

That was a serendipitous find.... now you know where it is, you can plan
for a visit when the tower is open... :)

 JM> Then it was on to home and got back around 6.30 Friday.
 JM> Since I had a car I made the most of yesterday running a lot of
 JM> errands.  :)

Makes sense...  :)

ttyl       neb

.... She was 3 gallons of crazy in a 2 gallon pail; in other words a mess.

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