This years summer vacation
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Not such a great pic of rolling Appalachian hills. It was too hazy to get a good shot
Gettysburg was very moving. I was never really aware of the details of the battle but now understanding the Lee took a chance that superior numbers could overcome the Union holding the higher ground (actually just ridges with numerous canon) and sent hordes over an open ground which turned into a killing field,with the canon just turning the invaders into canon fodder. Thousands left dead over the grasses of the plain. Sheer lunacy.
Anyway, spending the evening in Amish Lancaster county. Also quite an interesting part of the country.
The epic ends this weekend with a Sunday evening flight back to Tel Aviv.
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Great trip! Thanks for bring us along!!!
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@bachophile said in This years summer vacation:
Not such a great pic of rolling Appalachian hills. It was too hazy to get a good shot
That is where I did most of my flying, along the Blue Ridge from North Carolina to Pennsylvania.
I have a lot of not so great hazy pictures, that is what the hills in western Virginia look like, especially in the summer.
This is from 12/3/2011.
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@bachophile Interesting regarding safety. Certainly there are places (cities at night, random truck stops) that you'll want to be on your guard, but you answered my question well. It's funny the misconceptions one has (or that I have) regarding places like Israel based on the news coverage.
Beautiful pic of the Appalachian hills. Now you know why they're called the "Blue Ridge Mountains" in some places. You're getting a nice full view of the states (more than I've had) by driving coast to coast. Deserts, mountains, cornfields, Amish country, Appalachian mountains (some of the oldest mountains in the world).
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Not to get too personal, but has the wife enjoyed the long drive?
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Hahaha yea she was great with it. It was actually nice having time together for hours at a stretch. We talk, we listen to podcasts, she warns me about my driving…and she was always in charge of finding the right place to spend the night. We drove max 6-7 hours a day, divided up for rest stops every two hours or so. Really it was a pleasure.
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Right now at a bed and breakfast in upstate NY for the weekend. Sunday we fly back.
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Glad it's been a good trip and you both enjoyed it.
As much as I love my wife, if we were in a car together for a week or more it would be on Cops.
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Last update of this trip
View from an outlook into the Catskills.
New York City
Car return. I set the tripometer in San Francisco Airport. This is the return.
4651.8 miles.
The end.
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Yes it was varied per day and plan. Longest day was 7 hours behind the wheel. Easiest was just 2 or 3. All depended on the plan for the day.
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@bachophile said in This years summer vacation:
Yes it was varied per day and plan. Longest day was 7 hours behind the wheel. Easiest was just 2 or 3. All depended on the plan for the day.
Cool vacation. Thanks again for the pictures and descriptions.
(I actually like driving distances. Maybe I was a truck driver in a previous life!)
Have a good trip back to your home.
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That's seeing a lot of the country.
If you had to move to some place you visited during your trip, where would it be?
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@Jolly that’s a hard one. Saw a lot of beauty.
For me the big surprise was Iowa. Really gorgeous. Not drama. Just endless rolling fields.
But I still like the north east. New England.
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@bachophile said in This years summer vacation:
For me the big surprise was Iowa. Really gorgeous. Not drama. Just endless rolling fields.
But I still like the north east. New England.
Clearly a man of rare taste. Rhode Island: Gateway to America.
Incidentally, Mrs. Phibes has a friend she likes to visit in Iowa. She loves going there, both for the environment and the pace of life. Apparently, they're even friendlier than people from Massachusetts if such a thing is possible.
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