Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Highlights of the trip

Here are a few highlights for me for this 70 day adventure

  • Climbing Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park
  • Hearing the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, Salt Lake City
  • Mountain biking in Moab
  • The Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock Arkansas 
  • Visit to Grace Land (Elvis Presley)
  • Vicksburg National Military Park
  • General Lee and Grant at Strand Theatre Vicksburg
  • Driving the Natchez Trace Parkway
  • The Tom Tom (GPS) Navigator - made navigation so easy
  • Having the Honda Fit tow car to make side trips
  • Both Hugh and I having bicycles 
  • Charleston - Fort Sumpter and Aircraft carrier
  • Savannah waterfront
  • Yorktown - being able to drive around the site of the battle for the War of Independence 
  • Many civil war museums - particularly Richmond, Virginia
  • Biking the Richmond canal
  • A military museum in Williamsburg
  • Taking bikes into Washington DC
  • Visiting several of the Smithsonian museums
  • The new International Spy Museum in Washington DC
  • The Kennedy Arts Center in Washington DC
  •  Gettysburg - a very interesting drive around the site with an audio disc in the car as a guide
Were there any lowlights - a few that one should confess to.

  • It was very hot - 90F for much of the time in the south
  • The RV consumed a lot of gas!
  • We got stuck in a ditch when trying to turn around once
  • Hugh fell of his bike once on a forest trail due to a tree root or log. No injury.
  • The bikes fell of the back three times and one was damaged on the third time.
  • The Honda Fit’s battery ran down and needed jump starting a few times
  • The Fit electric cable cable came undone and needed to be replaced
  • I did not turn the key on in the fit once and the front tires became locked
  • One of the lockers was damaged when I closed the slider on it.


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