Sunday, July 26, 2009

Greetings from Troutville, VA

We made 430 miles today, stopping only in Harrisburg PA (lunch) and at Natural Bridge,VA to see the 215 foot tall natural granite bridge that Thomas Jefferson used to own back in the 1770s. The farmland of PA is pretty boring, but the mountains of Western Virginia aren't bad. We had a conversation about how Lewis and Clark must have reacted to seeing the Rockiesfor the first time, when these gentle rolling hills were all they had previously known of mountains.

We saw Natural Bridge because it used to be one of the only tourist attractions if the Early American Republic, along with Niagara Falls, Auburn prison, the prison in Phila, and the US Capitol. History geek gets to drag everyone else along.

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