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Side view of the Confederate White House in Richmond Va. |
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Confederate White House in Richmond Va. |
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Of course you have to have a family picture in front of the Confederate White House! |
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Back of the Confederate White House. |
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This plaque describes when the restoration of the Confederate White House was started. |
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Part 2 Of Journey
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August 16, 2002 |
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Today was the day that I had been
awaiting. We were going to historical Colonial Williamsburg. The tours
through the houses were very good. I liked how the tour guides talked as
though they actually lived during the times.
For lunch we went to Shields Tavern.
We all had a wonderful time in there. Of course the waitresses were
dressed according to the clothing of the times. While waiting to be
served a Gentleman came in and introduced himself to all of us as
the proprietor of the inn. He also spoke to us as if we were in that
time era. He was talking about different neighbors and things that were
happening to them. Asked us where we were from, and upon learning that
we were from NJ, he started talking about the Jersey Devil, and how they
had sent people to exercise the devil out of the child that was
possessed. I think that we spent more time laughing then eating in this
restaurant.
Then as fate would have it, the rains
started again so we just headed back to the hotel room so that we could
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August 17 2002 |
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It didn't take very long to get packed
and on our way today. We knew that we had a long trip ahead of us today.
We estimated about 9 hours. Not taking into consideration that our trip
up the skyline drive would take us North East instead
of North West! Adding about 5 additional hours to our travel time.
Today's traveling would take us
through Va., W Va., Pennsylvania and finally into Ohio, to our
destination.
The skyline drive was beautiful. We
couldn't get on at the beginning like we had intended to do because
during the night they had a rock slide in the middle of the skyline
drive. So we had to take a detour and arrive on the skyline drive around
the middle of it.
When we finally exited the skyline
drive we realized that we still had many of hours ahead of us in regards
to travel time. We still weren't even close to Pa. When finally we got onto the
turnpike we realized that we weren't going to be arriving in Ohio at our
destination until about 2 am. We began our Journey at 10:am that
morning. When we finally arrived in Ohio it was close to 2 am. We
unloaded the car and finally hit the beds. This had been the longest of
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vacation was spent at My husbands Uncles house in Canal Fulton Ohio. We
spend almost every summer out here. Uncle Ron lives in a very quiet area
with a lake as part of his back yard. We love fishing off his deck.
Unfortunately the fish weren't very hungry this year.
During our stay in Ohio we usually visit the race
track so that the kids get to ride the race cars. We tour all the cheese
factories and Amish things that they have in the area.
Friday August 23 we headed home. I was looking forward
to getting home. Vacations are wonderful and fun, however, there is
definitely no place like Home!!
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