Virginia Trip 2021 | Day 8 | Appomattox Courthouse | New River Gorge National Park After leaving Spotsylvania Courthouse, we began heading Southwest via VA-208 West, US-522 to Powhatan, and US-60 West, trying to avoid traffic around Richmond. Our next stop for today was at Appomattox Courthouse National Historic Park, which wasn’t exactly on our way, but it had been… Read More
Two Days in Dahlgren
Virginia Trip 2021 | Days 6 & 7 | Dahlgren, Fredericksburg, and Colonial Beach, VA As soon as we arrived in Dahlgren, it became apparent that we had simply too much planned for the short 2 days that we would be here. I briefly mentioned this at the end of our last post, but as we neared Fredericksburg, we began… Read More
Spruce Knob / Shenandoah
Virginia Trip 2021 | Day 5 | WV to VA | Spruce Knob | Shenandoah National Park Day 5 of our Virginia trip was our 8th wedding anniversary, and it ended up being our favorite day of this vacation. We had to be in Dahlgren that night so that Curtis could be at work early the next morning, but we… Read More
DC to MI / Backbone Mountain & Campbell Hill
DC & Midwest Trip | August 2019 | Day 5 On Friday, August 9, we rose early and checked out of our hotel at 5am. We walked to the nearest metro station and rode to DCA. We picked up a rental car and began our journey West. I can honestly say we’ve been planning this trip for 2 years now,… Read More
Washington DC / Arlington Cemetery
DC & Midwest Trip | August 2019 | Days 3 & 4 We started our first full day in DC off with a ride on the metro to Arlington county in Virginia, grabbed breakfast at Panera and walked to the Arlington National Cemetery. Knowing we had another hot and humid day with lots of walking ahead of us, we prepared… Read More
Harpers Ferry National Historic Park
Road Trip to the Mason-Dixon Line, Part 3 • March 18, 2017 • Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, the Maryland Heights Trail, and Washington Monument State Park After our visit to Antietam, we drove about 20 minutes South to our next historic site, Harpers Ferry. We crossed the Potomac River into Virginia briefly then into West Virginia, and got a little too… Read More