Friday, October 7th. As we drove thru Penn. on our way to Gettysburg, we were impressed with the beauty of Pennsylvania. Lots of rolling hills, farmland and changing colors on the trees. As we approached Harrisburg, the capital, traffic became quite heavy. We had to negotiate a beltway around the city to get to the correct road for Gettysburg. We got to our Gettysburg exit at about 3 in the afternoon. As we're driving on Taneytown Road to the campground, we saw many signs of the battle. There were many monuments along the road indicating the location of troops from various states. Also, signs documented many of the old farmhouses as being hospitals during and immediately after the battle. Gettysburg was a town of about 2400 people at the time and they had to deal with about 25,000 wounded in the war. That's on top of the 51,000+ that were killed during the battle. But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
It turns out that this is Columbus Day weekend. While that was not generally a holiday in Arizona or Washington, it sure is here. The campground was 100% full and the City of Gettysburg was packed. It turns out that this is the first sunny weekend after 4 rainy weekends in a row. So everyone was enjoying the sunshine. And we did too.
i never was much of a history buff like you, but it sounds very cool to know all of that history.... happened right where you are! cool!
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