We slept a little late on Tuesday morning, but then hit the road about 9am. We had a little over 1500 miles to get home. We set our route for home with the way-stops of Gettysburg, PA and Shenandoah, VA. We drove through the state of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, W. Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and finally Texas in order to get home. I figured up that we had driven through 12 states on our 8 day road trip. In total it came up to 4300 miles that we drove. We saw some of the most amazing houses and barns on our trip. So many of the houses near the water had the widow walks and every barn and house seemed to have a rock base with many of them having a basement.
We took a very short detour to Millersville, PA where Millersville University is. We had to go to the book store so we could get a couple of T-shirts. We just thought it was humorous how many towns in the north-east have Miller in them. But since this area was largely populated by the Amish and Mennonites who are Pennsylvania Dutch or German in descent-it totally makes sense. Duh-it is just odd considering that Craig's grandfather still had the German spelling of his name until during the second World War, when the spelling was informally changed to what we have today.
Pennsylvania Monument
This is the monument in the Gettysburg National Cemetery. This monument is situated very close to where President Lincoln gave his Gettysburg address. We took a quick tour of the cemetery and then headed on down the road.
Our next stop was a quick tour through the Shenandoah National Park. We had planned to drive the scenic road through the park south as long as daylight allowed. We decided we didn't want to travel on that windy road in the middle of no-where in the dark of night. We only made it through the first section of the park. That section is 33 miles long (approx.). It took us two hours to go 33 miles! So our first day of traveling was very slow. Here are a couple of pictures. It was very hazy and the sun was going down, so pictures do not do justice to the area.
When we entered the park, there was a sign that read "Do not feed the bears." I said I hoped we would see a bear. Well, the wish came true. We rounded a corner at dusk and in the middle of the road was a bear. This is the worst picture. I had my camera set on landscape mode and the bear was moving just fast enough that I couldn't get the setting changed and then catch the escaping bear.
I'm just really glad that I did not hit Yogi. That would have been a really bad end to the trip. We headed south toward home. We drove through the night and all of Wednesday. We took turns sleeping, and we made it home around 8pm last night. We were so ready to get home. Now we just need our building to get built, so we can use some of the things we learned up north.
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