Up & running early again for our second day of Washington DC. Caught our bus at Union Station and headed across the Potomac River into Virginia. First stop was in Old Town Alexandria. We stopped at the church George Washington used. One gravestone shows a person who lived to be 152. The photo of the
Up early and caught our tour bus at 6:45AM which took us right to Union Station in downtown Washington, DC. Hopped on our city tour bus and headed for the US Capital Building. Toured the building, which included the Rotunda, (state funerals, leaders laying in state etc.) the old Senate and Supreme Court areas. The actual
Drove from York into Maryland and got to our campsite in the Cherry Hill RV Park (www.cherryhillpark.com) just north of Washington DC by noon. It’s a pretty big park, our site is 1707. The park offers an orientation session on tours into Washington and we have booked a 2 day bus sight seeing tour that
We drove east of York about 25 miles and found ourselves right in middle of Amish Country, Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Yep, that’s right, it is just down the road from Pleasantville and Virginville! Beautiful area, wide roads to accommodate the numerous Amish horse drawn carts, and an area of small farms that are still worked by
Decided to go to Cracker Barrel this morning for breakfast – great biscuits. Cool overnight – went down to freezing. Drove towards Gettysburg and stopped at the the Christmas Haus. All the decorations were from Germany. Very nice store but expensive. The store employee recommended that we go to a restaurant in Gettysburg called the Dobbin
We drove from York to Gettysburg this morning. At the National Information Centre we took a guided bus tour of the Gettysburg Battlefield. Very interesting tour and it’s all done on the very battlefield that it took place on 150 years ago. The area covers about 2 or 3 miles square but has tremendous historic
Nice sunny day and temperature to about 60F. We drove from Newburgh, NY to Allentown, PA. The trip took about 3 hours. The KOA was a few miles North of town and we couldn’t find anything to do in the area so we made our supper and watched a movie. This KOA has a no
We moved to York, PA and set up in the Ben Franklin RV Park. York is the factory tour capital of the world (Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Utz Quality Foods, York Time Institute, Martin’s Potato Chips and numerous wineries and breweries). We went to the factory outlets for Wolfgang Chocolates and Stauffer’s Cookie Company (animal crackers). Very
Off to New York City for our last day – arrived at about 11:00 a.m. The train ride into New York is about an hour and a half + driving to the parking area is about another 1/2 hour. Walked north to the Fox News Network building and then to a small recommended Pizza restaurant
Early start but were detoured by a fire on the highway between us and the rail station. Arrived in Grand Central Station about 10 AM. We walked straight to the Hudson River Water Taxi which took us around the south end of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Bridge, around the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Battery Park.
