A thread to record notable (or not) places you've visited or events you've attended.
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Tracy and I just got back yesterday from visiting Fredricksburg, Gruene and New Braunfels, TX over the holiday weekend with our friends who live in Roundrock and another couple from Licking, MO.
I'm surprised we haven't thought of this before. (Or maybe we did, and I've forgotten. I'm old(ish). Leave me alone.)
I'll start with a belated entry (since I've been away from my computer).
Last Friday, The Lovely and Talented and I were meandering around Old Town Culpeper, VA -- boyhood home of Confederate General A.P. Hill and site of the Civil War Battle of Culpeper Court House, where General George Armstrong Custer had a horse shot out from under him.
While walking around, we saw signs for "Culpeper National Cemetery" and followed them through a historic neighborhood, over a set of train tracks, here. It was like stumbling across an annex to Arlington National Cemetery, in a completely unexpected place. Solemn and lovely. Who knew?
This is a good idea and I started a similar thing on CB+ but it soon petered out and I seemed to be the only one posting. Hope this goes better.
I'm afraid you wont know many of the places I visit, (a lot of them are in Scotland) but they are no less enjoyable for all that. Or boring, as we went to Asda for the messages this morning. Then soup and sandwiches at the Almond Tree, then home. Saturday I was in Edinburgh to meet some friends in the bar at The Film Theatre on Lothian Road. Good patter, good laughs, drinks were taken, world was saved. http://www.filmhousecinema.com/
And I also saw the slightly disappointing exhibition about The Dandy, at the National Library. http://www.nls.
The National Library link you posted doesn't take us U.S. people there. This one does:
http://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/treasures
Stephen Montgomery said:
Back in 1968 in the Army I was stationed at Fort Belvoir (when it was still the Engineer Center). A few times my company was on temporary duty at Camp A.P. Hill (Now Fort A.P. Hill). I didn't find out who he was until a few years ago. My first experience with snow was walking back to the camp from Bowling Green.
Doctor Hmmm? said:
2 Days into a 16-Day Road Trip.
Yesterday: My first visit to Gettysburg, PA. Spent much of the day walking the battlefield with Action Lad and The Lovely and Talented. Walked the field of Pickett's Charge. Stood atop Little Round Top. Gettysburg National Cemetery, site of Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address. Awesome. Old-fashioned small town Fourth of July concert and fireworks at Gettysburg College.
Today: All day on the road to Amherst, MA.
Slowly I turn ...
Independence Day fireworks in Boston with The Lad and The Lovely. Awesome!
Step by step...
Doctor Hmmm? said:
Saturday was a trip to my sister's cabin on Little Ossipie Lake in Maine (my wife and I) and Sunday was a trip to Paxton Mass to drop our daughter at freshman orientation week at Anna Marie Collage.
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