CARLISLE PA 5/21-5/27

Carlisle PA is great spot to stay with so many things with in a 40 mile radius.  We are staying at the Western Village RV Resort.  We stayed here last Sept also so Joe could catch the races.  There are 4 big tracks from here that he likes to go to.  This is the reason we are here again accept that they canceled the Keystone series until June because of so much rain so Joe is disappointed but he can still go to the weekly shows that are still scheduled.

Being this is Memorial weekend the campground is packed, I don't think there is an empty space left. Big family groups playing corn toss on the meadow, bbq's going a lot of people and noise, everyone is having a great time.  The people parked next to us said this is there 8th year coming here, kind of a family reunion every Memorial day.

One day we drove over to Lancaster to tour the Amish village.  It is amazing to see their farms, generations live together on them until they run out of room.  Some have moved to NY and other areas where they can get land and be with others of their faith.  We took a buggy tour of the area.

This is the farm we toured, really big pigs!  Most all the animals were out in the fields.

 It was a lot of fun.  We had a young man drive the buggy, he was not Amish but most of his family was.  So we did get some history of the culture.

Gettysburg

The day started out cold and cloudy but we were determined to tour Gettysburg.  We had missed getting to do it in Sept.

We started with the museum and movie to get a refresher course on history.  The movie was very informative as well as the Cyclorama.  It pictured scenes from the war and was painted 131 years ago, it was really amazing.



The Cyclorama is painted 360 degrees around the curved dome so it is on continuous painting.

 The museum had some cool artifacts in it also.

 Once done with the tour we took the auto tour of the park and of course just as we got started the rain came pouring down.  It gave you a better of sense of what they had to go through while fighting and just surviving here.  The first picture is of the eternal flame monument.

 These are battle fields and the a monument for Alabama.  There were monuments for most of the states involved in the fighting.

We really enjoyed this tour and highly recommend it to anyone visiting this area.  We really wished we had Paxton and Kiernan with us to share it with.