Travel
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Seven Score and Ten Years Ago . . .
Next week marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. By the end of June 1863 most of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was in Pennsylvania, and the battle was fought…
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Dravo Cemetery on the Yough River Trail
Several miles into our bicycle ride last weekend, my back started to hurt. I told Jonathan that I was going to stop for break. He said, “Dravo Cemetery’s ahead. Only two more…
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Salem on My Mind
My sister-in-law Sarah recently blogged the following about her summer trip to New England: Later that afternoon, we went to Salem so that I could get my witch hunt/The Crucible fix. Maybe I had…
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“The Past is a Foreign Country”
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” – L. P. Hartley. Yesterday Jonathan and I drove around Fayette County to leaf-peep. Our scenic route to Ohiopyle State Park took us…
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National Road
This is Searights Tollhouse, on U.S. Route 40 in Fayette County, PA. Long before we had EZ Pass, travelers would stop at buildings such as this to pay their fares. This section of…
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Happy to Haunt
If I were a ghost, I might be tempted to haunt Hartwood Acres Park. After I found the pet cemetary that sits right behind the old mansion, I realized that the original owners…
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More Scenes from the Trail
Today’s photos, and the one that I posted in the previous blog entry , were taken last month during a trip that Jonathan and I made on the Great Allegheny Passage from Garrett, PA…
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Scene from the Bike Trail: Garrett, PA
I took this photo about two miles from the Great Allegheny Passage‘s trailhead in Garrett, Somerset County, PA. Garrett is part of the school district that I attended from Grades 2-12, and I…
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Beyond the Gitche Gumee
I learned something new today on Wikipedia. I learned that Lake Superior is not actually the largest of the Great Lakes. Actually, the privilege should go to Lake Michigan-Huron, which geographically is…
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How We Escaped the Heat Wave Today
We went to the top of Mount Davis and sat in the woods for a few hours because it was too hot to do anything else today. Mount Davis is the highest point…