The only work I’ve done this week, has been around the house. You see, I’m on vacation.
Every year at this time – the week before Memorial Day – my wife and I take time off from work for a vacation. We do so for two reasons. The first is that the full heat of Summer is not yet upon us so it makes taking time off a pleasure. The other reason is that if we do go away somewhere we can still take advantage of price reductions before they change for the Summer season.
This year, however, we decided not to go away anywhere and save our money for next year. You see, this time next year I should be a retired person and we are planning on taking an extended vacation as a retirement present. Depending on how our 401 goes, it will either be for two weeks in the Colonial Williamsburg, VA area or a month trip to the West Coast and back; we’ll see.
All is not lost, however. We did decide to take a day trip and go somewhere where we have never been before. The place we picked was Harper’s Ferry, WV. This is the place where, in 1859, John Brown held his famous raid in trying to capture the U.S. Arsenal and to start a slave revolt in the process. At that time Harper’s Ferry was in VA as there was no West Virginia, yet. Well, if you know anything about history at all you know that he was not successful.
As a point of interesting history, the Commander of the U.S. Marines who came to the rescue, and to capture John Brown, was Colonel Robert E. Lee, and on his staff was Lieutenant J. E. B. Stewart. In two years they would be considered the enemy by the same forces they were commanding.
Anyway, we drove the two hours to get there and spent the day. It was quite interesting to walk around and see the various buildings, including a replica of John Brown’s “Fort”, visit the museums and to climb up the mountain to see “Jefferson’s Rock”; quite a view from up there. All of this was followed by having a good meal at the local Cracker Barrel Restaurant.
With that in mind, there is nothing work related to talk about and I’m sure you don’t want to be bored hearing all about our one day vacation trip. That, then, makes what you are reading the post for this week. But I can’t leave you hanging like that without giving you a little hint of what we experienced.
Just to give you an idea of what all we saw, here is a photo of John Brown’s “Fort”, as seen from an angle that mostly likely you won’t see in most travel photos. The image is finished in Vintage Photo style and I hope you like it… 🙂
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