We were on the job to visit a park called "
Round Top". I knew it was somewhere near Gettysburg. I didn't realize it was right at Gettysburg. In fact, the hill known as Round Top is a well known site in the battle of Gettysburg.
Here's Jim 'going to work'. A really nice woodsy park with very friendly folks.
Less than two miles down the road was the Visitor Center for Gettysburg National Military Park and the Cemetery. We finally tore ourselves away to do some sightseeing about 2 hours before we had to be on the road to go to the next park.
You can't be here without trying to memorize the Gettysburg address:
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure... " For the entire text, click
here.
I so love learning history while physically standing on the ground where that history was made. I learned that Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest battles ever in terms of American lives. 51,000! It is also one of the most decisive battles anywhere - ever. Up until this point, the Confederates were winning. Think about it, Pennsylvania is pretty far north! After the Union victory here - it was all downhill for the Confederates. After seeing the
"Electric Map" presentation and the Cyclorama, we bought a CD with narration for a self-guided car tour. Pretty cool.
Here's the battlefield for the opening battle.
There are spectacular statues everywhere.
These cannons were also everywhere.
So, that's it, we really did have to get going.
And the Amish farmland countryside was so picturesque.
Then we drove right thru the middle of Philadelphia.
And entered New Jersey on the other side of the Delaware river. Back home for Jim!
Here's our 'site'.
I tell Jimmy (he lives here) how much we love his place. He reminds me that I wouldn't like it so much in January when the bay is frozen over! hmmmm - that's true. OK, LBI in the summertime, and the 'Quartzsite homestead' in the wintertime. I can see how RVers that do this for several years tend to settle on one or two particular places for particular seasons. We hope to continue traveling all over for at least a couple more years. But I feel so lucky to be able to spend time in such wonderful places.
It may not be obvious what a hill we're on, but it is. We used our leveling blocks under the downhill side wheels.
Then we check the bubble levels that Jim mounted by the drivers' door. (a hint from Lynne and John) and, even though we were still a little off - we decided it was OK.
I hardly even noticed for the first 4-5 hours. But, it's surprising that, as the time goes by, you notice the slant more and more. By the second day I was feeling decidedly off-balanced. Well, at least I have an excuse!
I still think I'd rather be off-balanced than have my wheels in the air like this RV with hydraulic levelers.
Jim did some more high altitude work when he got up on the roof of this barn to make an adjustment to the antenna. Sorry I missed that photo op!
And now we're in 
ooops, gotta go. Jim tells me it's time to drive him around again to check the WiFi signal throughout the park. We already did it once, just with his laptop and built-in antenna. Now we're going around again with a roof-mount antenna that we are beta testing.
Windmills are always a nice sight.
Once in Pennsylvania the hills got steeper. This one was a 9% grade! Jim has learned to keep the rig geared down, even into 1st in order to save the brakes. I sure wouldn't want to need one of these 'runaway truck ramps'.
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