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Day one, we drove to
Fredricksburg to check out the train.
Nancy, Lea, Sandy and Pat in Fredricksburg |
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Main street of Fredricksburg |
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Day 2 we went to Washington.
This is part of the Smithsonian.
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Pat on the Mall with the capitol in the background. |
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Sandy in front of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History |
Smithsonian castle.
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Inside Union Station |
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Union Station |
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Columbus Circle and Union Station. |
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American Indian museum reminds me of the cliff dwellers of the southwest. |
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Pat arranged to have lunch with a former high school classmate, Jane,
who she hasn't seen since graduation. We had lunch at the National Gallery
of Art. |
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Inside the capitol rotunda |
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Day 3 we drove around the
Spotsylvania battlefields. This is some interesting tree fungus. |
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Sandy, Nancy, Lea, and Pat at the Chancelorsville battlefield in Spotsylvania,
Virginia. Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded in Spotsylvania. |
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Sandy having a cool one in Culpeper. |
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Lunch in Culpeper. We did some antiquing there. |
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Postal Museum
Day 4 we took the train back
to Washington. |
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Sorting bins in the mail car. |
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This is a memorial to the
Japanese Americans interred
in WW II.
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Sandy in the Museum
of Natural History.
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Day 5 we drove to
Charlottesville to see
Jefferson's home,
Montecello.
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At lunch at Michie Tavern, an 18th century establishment. |
Michie Tavern
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Ash Lawn, or Highland, was James Monroe's home. The yellow part of
the house was added by a later owner. The original house is white. |
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We stopped at the University of Virginia to take some pictures before
it got dark. |
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This is where we stayed. |
Our last day -- heading home
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We stopped at the National Air and Space museum at Dulles Airport on
our way home. |
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Enola Gay |
Concord
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