As the summer came down to an end my family and I took one last trip before I started my junior year at college. My step dad, brother, and Shane were in Tennessee two weeks prior to our trip working their butts off. My mom, lil brother, lil sister, Cali (our dog), and I headed down on a Friday to meet them in Tennessee. The next day we started our road trip. We first headed up to North Carolina, through Virginia, up to D.C., to Maryland, and through Pennsylvania.
We drove through the Rocky Mountains (which I think is Utah and Michigan mixed. You have the mountains, but also all the green). We camped out in North Carolina and went white water rafting one day then headed to Virginia to visit the Arlington Cemetery (where my great uncle clay was buried and a recently fallen soldier from my home town)
It was such a neat experience, but extremely hot. It was hard to enjoy when it was 90% humidity, hot, when you're sweaty, and have to walk for a long ways. The next day was D.C. We saw the White House, Lincoln Memorial, Smithsonian Museum, and all the tourist things. Half way into the day it decided to storm really bad and well we were doing a lot of walking so to say the least we got soaked!
Our last and final destination of our trip was Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
did the car tour on the battle field, but sort of rushed through that since Shane and I wanted to walk around town. The town was so cute and so many cool little shops. I could have spent a whole day walking around.
We wanted to get a victorian picture taken and to our surprise it was a legit place. The place we went to dress you up in basically the real clothes (not the cheap costumes like the tourist old western pictures you'd get) and took the picture on a wet plate with the old fashion camera. We even had the stands that held us still since it takes around 18 seconds for the picture to take. They did my hair and everything for it also. The picture turned out really cool and looks for real authentic.
Later that night Shane and I went on a haunted tour through town. It wasn't very scary and of course we didn't see anything, but it was cool to hear the different stories and some stuff about the history. The next day we headed back home. It was a fun trip, but each place needs about a week to thoroughly go through and enjoy.
