Hershey, PA to Cherry Hill Park near Washington, DC

We are on the road again heading for a park in Maryland just outside of Washington, DC.  We decided to take in Gettysburg, PA since it was nearly on the way.  Good choice, we experienced driving through the heart of Gettysburg with the Ti - hmmm not so good, streets seemed very narrow (or the trailer seemed extra large), not sure which.

We made it to the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitors Centre without getting too lost, to say this place was awesome is an understatement.  After saying hello to Abraham Lincoln at the entrance we had a quick bite to eat and set off on our museum tour.

Our first stop was the film, "A New Birth of Freedom", narrated by award winning actor Morgan Freeman, which was excellent.  Fact: Over 680,000 people lost their lives during the Civil War. Wow!

The film actually set the stage for a trip to the second floor which held the restored Gettysburg Cyclorama, which depicts the final fury of Gettysburg - "Pickett's Charge".  There was a short audio story that explained the cyclorama and the effort that went into it.  Hearing the story and seeing this was very moving.  An explanation is available through this link: Gettysburg Cyclorama.  We had not even heard of this before.  We then toured the museum which held not only artifacts but details of the battle and personal notes from the actual participants.

We burnt up over 3 hours here in a blink of an eye even though we had not been to the actual battlefield.  Unfortunately it was time to leave and we headed off to our next campsite at Cherry Hill Park in College Park, Maryland. We will be back to spend a bit more time here.

The trip to Cherry Hill was uneventful other than it seemed like a lot of traffic for a Saturday, maybe it is this busy all the time?

The park is very nice and has arrangement for a bus service that will take you downtown.  You can purchase a pass that allows you unlimited hop on/off privilege for either 24 or 48 hours.  We purchased the 48 hour pass that starts tomorrow (Monday) and we will be off to explore Washington, DC.

Today was a down day with doing grocery shopping and laundry.  Looking forward to exploring tomorrow.