Saturday we visited the Cape Hatteras lighthouse. It was built in 1802 and at 210′, is the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States and 2nd tallest in the world. For what it’s worth, the tallest in the world is in Poland and is only 3′ taller. Over the years the beach began to recede and the lighthouse had to be moved in 1999. It took 23 days for them to move it 2,900′ inland and is considered one of…
On to our final state. We’ve been to North Carolina before but never the outer banks. So we left Virginia for what will essentially be the last state on our journey. We chose the outer banks because there were things we wanted to see there and it seemed fitting to end our journey at the beach, our favorite place to be and a prelude of our future. The first day we simply relaxed and enjoyed a beautiful day on the…
We left Maryland for our second to last stop on our journey, Virginia. We found a very nice campground about 20 minutes north of Richmond that was a somewhat central location in Virginia to allow us to venture out in the jeep to see other parts of the state. We stayed there for a week and as it turns out we really only spent one day sightseeing. I think it was a combination of wearing ourselves out the last couple…
Tuesday we decided to go to Arlington National Cemetery. Surprisingly, neither of us had ever been there so a visit was long overdue. We got kind of a late start to the day so we didn’t leave until after lunch but it was only about 20 minutes away. We got there and started at the visitor’s center which takes a good hour in itself if you read through all the plaques inside, which we did. We pretty much knew what…
The next day we played golf at the course on Andrews AFB. Although we didn’t think it was anything special, many presidents have played there. The last one to play there was Obama. That was short and sweet so I’ll combine 2 posts here. The day after golf we went to the International Spy Museum. Jamie found this place and it sounded very intriguing. The museum opened in 2002 and has the largest display of espionage artifacts in the world….
From Philadelphia we moved on to Delaware. We were there for a week and had a campsite right near the beach and decided to spend this state recuperating rather than sightseeing. Along with hanging out on the beach Jim played a couple rounds of golf and some pickleball and we spent some time with Jim’s brother and sister in law. Since we didn’t do anything special we have no pictures of this state. Sorry, Delaware! But we did enjoy our…
Our time with the kids came to an end but not without some hitches. The plan was for Jamie and Cadence to fly from Atlantic City to Detroit and the next day Jim and Eric would drop the rv off so we could get a valve replaced on one of our jacks that wasn’t working properly. After dropping the rv off Jim would drop Eric off at the Philadelphia airport at the same time Jamie was flying back to Philadelphia…