More of Gettysburg

Lee's Headquarters just outside Gettysburg

September 12 – It was raining a bit on and off this morning.  Never in a hurry when it’s raining.  Also Bill injured a groin muscle on the horseback trip yesterday and it wasn’t much better this morning.  We tried an ACE bandage that seemed to work better.  So by the time we had breakfast and showered we didn’t get a very early start.  I thought I was going to be in bad shape today with my back, but it felt the best in months.  I think the gentle back and forth movement must have done me good!!!

We drove part of the battleground this morning.  From horseback we didn’t get to take the photos of various monuments.  A majority of the roads in the battleground are one way but have a lane for stopping.  I got to

Robert E Lee Memorial

stop at Virginia Monument with Robert E Lee on Traveler on of the huge stone.  I true Virginian always pays respect to such a great man who did not want a Civil War, but felt a duty to his state to serve at the Confederacy’s request.  This was the farthermost north the South got during the long brutal war.  We stopped at many places today, including Lee’s Headquarters while in Gettysburg. 

We stopped at one of the fire towers that is in the park grounds as

One of the towers

well.  When it is open you can climb to the top. Bill had read about a Covered Bridge in the area and we managed to find it.  Sachs Bridge was built in 1852 and basically was washed away in 1996.  Government and locals worked together to find the beams and cross bars used in the original along the river and it was rebuilt with 80 per cent of the original wood.  Today there was a wedding going on there and it is blocked at both ends from being driven on permanently.  They were putting out flowers and the photographer was there as well.

Sachs Bridge

It was lunch time so we headed to a spot Bill thought would be interesting, Gettysburg Eddies.  Apparently Eddie Plank was a Hall of Fame baseball pitcher from 1901-1917.  Bill had never heard of the guy but read up on him then and after lunch we went to the Evergreen Cemetery and found his grave. 

We have not done much “shopping” so we went into a shop in town and got some postcards and a few odds and ends.  Then we went to Walmart to get a better Ace wrap for Bill and a few groceries that we were out of.  They didn’t have every thing we were looking for so we stopped at a Giant Supermarket and finished off there.

Then we got back on the cemetery road and finished our drive around Devil’s Den and the

Show off Pennsylvanians!

high part of the battlefield where the largest monument stands.  It just happens to be the Pennsylvania Monument and it is huge.  Traffic and people were more today than our first 2 days but we figure it’s because it’s the weekend.

Time to head back to the RV, chill with some wine and eventually I stewed some leftover chicken and added some Amish Pot Pie Noodles and it was chicken noodle soup. 

The WIFI gets really low in the evenings so I can’t get my photos to upload and won’t get to post my blog for the last few days!

Jean and Paul left Florida EARLY this morning and had trouble already today.  We spoke several times and they are struggling along with an alternator issue but got to their stop for the night so maybe they can get the part and we will see them in Williamsburg tomorrow!!!