dc after dark

did a little wandering last night and god the traffic was nice, there was none.

i was using the tripod and evidently the camera wasn't straight but the photo came out ok

11:00 pm and there were still this many people milling around

we drove by around midnight and there were still about half this many

just a little wandering

today was another old house day.

we drove down to fredericksburg, va to tour a couple of

old places with some historic value.

the house above was called chatham

its claim to fame is that it is the only private

home visited by thomas jefferson, george washington and abraham lincoln.

this is the kenmore house. it belonged to george washington's sister and her husband. george's mother lived just a couple of blocks behind this house. the home contains some of the most elaborate plaster work from colonial american times. enough of the history lesson for today. week decided to go out wandering by herself this morning while i was doing a little repair on the plumbing, shower drain leaking and trying to get the spare tire back under the trailer. she was gone for about 1/2 hour, i looked but couldn't see her anywhere until the birds started giving her hell. i went into the bushes but still couldn't find, her but when i came out of the bushes she was laying by the trailer with an eat shit look on her face

a day at the musems

visited a few musems today some with old art, some with

old planes and some with some really weard crap air and space musem on the mall there is another one out by the dulles airport much bigger with a concord and a space shuttle. the red barron

and a cool engine

tomorrow we are going to the crime and punishment musem

a busy day

kellie jo and brandon welcomed zakk brandon into the family last night. he, mom and dad are doing great. he was 6 lbs 5 oz and 19 inches long

mt. vernon.

yesterday we toured the white house in dc, they wouldn't allow you to take a camera into the place so there are no photos as we left the camera in the truck.

we took the metro in and had no derailments or crashes, it was actually quite fun to avoid swearing at the stupidity of the drivers out here (not that i don't swear at drivers every place we go, due to the fact that i'm a perfect driver and everyone else has no clue).

we also went out to mt. vernon, not many good photos due to the fact that there were way to many people standing in front of the camera, but it was a beautiful area.

we made it to virginia

well we are here at the travel trailer village in dumfries, va. we drove up into dc yesterday after noon/evening but there were to many people kicking around on the plaza and no place to park tankasourous so we just did a bit of touring. we are going to tour the white house tomorrow taking the metro instead of the truck. today we did nothing at all, which was a nice thing.

washington, dc

what a great first impression of a great city. we spent the first 6 hours trying to get into dc from pa, seems that there was an accident on the freeway and we spent 3 hours going about 3 miles.

we drove in on thursday evening and stayed overnight down town to get a jump on the tours for today.

i don't think that they had ever valeted a vehicle on the scale of the truck, it wouldn't fit in the garage and ended up out on the street.

we toured the printing and engraving place in the morning, more money there than anyone deserves. the statement on the wall seems to have fit the bill "i printed more money in the last 2 minutes than i will make in my lifetime". they were printing $100 bills today. every day they print $750 mill.

rose marie spent part of the afternoon running over a new toyota so if your keeping score this one wasn't mine.

after lunch at the hard rock we went on a little

tour of the supreme court building, beautiful.

i can't believe that we are as a country still

paying someone to sit in an elevator and push

buttons for people who seem to have fingers

attached to their own hands, our tax dollars

at work, (in a bad way).

we are still camped in intercourse, pa until sunday and then we will atempt moving along to virgina, where we can take public transprotation to washington instead of putting the truck through another round. at this pace rose marie will have her white truck before you know it.

gettysburg

it was amazing to see frist hand what the cival war soliders went through at the battle of gettysburg, the amount of men that died, either during the battle or after the

battle due to infection after having a limb amputated.

if you ever get the opportunity to visit this place it is well worth the money to have a personal guide that rides along or drives your car.

rose marie and I had a great guide who was able to personalize the tour. the video is also well worth the money. i would recomend that you see the video frist before you take the tour, although the priviate guides are available on a first come first serve basis.

the past few days

we have spent the last few days hanging out

with my sister pam and her boyfriend jonathan.

they have taken us to longwood gardens, a trip up

to new hope for lunch and a rita's water ice.

today we went into philly for a great cheesesteak at

tony lukes on the south side of philly and then

wandered around down town. pam & jonathan the above photo is for kaden, enlarge it and enjoy the farm fresh eggs these are a couple of phillys invisable buildings

the amish day

just thought i would show you a few things we have

seen on a regular basis right outside the campground.

longwood gardens

today my sister pam and her boy friend jonathan took us to

longwood gardens, south east of philly, beautiful gardens built by the

duponts, its a good thing that the old money was there to give us all

of the beautiful parks and historic homes we have today.

chocolate and trains

pa country side they have had a lot of rain should not need an explination for the these two

strausburg railroad musem

they have over 100 cars in an inclosed covered area

and have you ever wonder where your hanging baskets come from

a nursery outside of new holland pa.

a frank lloyd day

today was a frank lloyd wright day.

first we visited falling waters in mill run.

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and next we visited kentuck knob in chalk hill, the current owners

are somewhat of abstract art collectors.

today was actually his birthday. we are now camped at beacon hill, intercourse, pa we will be here for 10 days, meeting Pam (my sister from philly) on thursday for a side trip to some gardens in maryland.

a rough day at the races

seems that we were in kentucky for ever,

and then we ended up in west virgina god knows how.

wished we could have spent some time in cincinnati,

looked like a great town to wander around in.

made it all the way across ohio into pennsylvania.

had to replace one of the lenses on the camera, when we were in olney i dropped the camera

and shattered the lens into several pieces, (thus no photos) so we had to go into pittsburgh to a store that had a new one. while driving out of downtown pittsburgh we

hit a curb and blew out one of the tires on the trailer,

but not realizing it until is was just smoking several miles down the road.

No tools to change it and those tools we had were not the right ones,

and no AAA on the camper so i had to change it myself. I know wa-wa.

we then spent 3 hours to go 10 miles in the hills with no signs, backtracking several times with dueling banjos whispering through the trees, to get to the campground outside of Mill run where the most famous of the frank lloyd wright homes are.

If that doesn't let you know how our day went I'm not sure what will.

LOLOLOLOLOL its all we can do

still in kentucky

well we traveled another 30 or so miles and deceided that

we didn't care if we went any further today

saw a campground sign and pulled in. they have great internet service,

cable tv, what else could you ask for.

another wrong turn, and another dent

white squirrels in Olney, IL It is also where I was born

Lake Springfield. today we somehow ended up in Kentucky at the dairy queen had a great time visiting with the locals.

the last couple of days

after a long sleep in tuesday morning we wandered back into springfield

to do a little laundry, (ok a lot of laundry) and while doing so came

across and toured the linclon home and neighborhood, I can't imagine

how people lived in those times.

and today we drove up to champagn to visit with the turpin clan.

we had a great visit over dinner, and decided that it might be nice to

see each other somewhat more frequently than we have been.

today we visited springfield and the lincoln tomb

this is the outside of the tomb in the oak ridge cemetary and does anyone know these people?