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TRAVEL

During my time in the Carolinas, the success of the establishment of
I traveled to several other places our country. We visited Fort Sumter
related to my work. I was curious in the bay near Charleston, where
when I flew into Boston in January the first shots of the Civil War were
and saw the solid white spots on the fired. Near there is the H. L. Hunley,
ground. I found out they were frozen a Confederate submarine launched
ponds and lakes. I’d never seen such in 1864, which sank the USS
a thing before. And what I’d thought Housatonic during the Civil War,
of as snow in the Carolinas didn’t becoming the first successful combat
compare to snow in the Northeast. submarine in world history. After
They really have snow up there! her success, the Hunley mysteriously
disappeared. She was found in
I also visited Los Angeles and San 1995 and very carefully raised from
Francisco. California is absolutely the waters in 2000. In 2004, after a
beautiful, especially when the century lost at sea, the eight-man
hills are green, and flowers are crew received a proper burial with
blooming everywhere. Traveling appropriate ceremony.
east from sea level on its Pacific
coast, huge mountains rise up from Next, we explored the depths of
the horizon, and amazing deserts Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. This
spread before you with cacti that is the world’s longest known cave
grow nowhere else. Farther up along system, some of which has yet to Mammoth Cave, KY
the coast, in Oregon, the beaches be explored. We also wandered
are more formidable than those in around in Pennsylvania, which has
the Southeast, with seals sunning a continuation of the Appalachian
themselves on huge rocks rising up Mountain range, although these
out of the water. mountains are worn down into
steep hills with streams and
After we retired, my partner, Robert, lakes dappled around. We visited
and I bought a travel trailer and Birdsboro and explored the
headed out on an exploration of Hopewell Furnace, a coal-fired
this awesome country. We started iron blast furnace founded in the
in South Carolina, touring Kings 1700s and now a National Historic
Mountain National Military Park and Site. Near there, we visited the Daniel Boone Homestead, Exeter, PA
Cowpens National Battlefield, both Daniel Boone homestead. Also, in
sites of Revolutionary War battles PA we visited Valley Forge and
won by the patriots and significant in Gettysburg, where thousands of
our ancestors died in the struggle
for independence from England,
and then later ancestors battled
with each other to determine our
ability to stay together as a country.
Much of the early history of this
awesome country was carried out in Washington's HQ, Valley Forge, PA
Pennsylvania.
Myrtle Beach State Park, SC
Virginia is such a historical state and
so full of places to see that we could
have spent weeks going from the Battlefield at Gettysburg Natl. Park, PA
mountains to the ocean, from one
historic site to another. We chose
two places to focus on: Monticello,
and Appomattox Court House
National Historical Park. The first
was the home of Thomas Jefferson,
Fort Sumter, SC
author of the Declaration explaining

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