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Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park

Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park

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Continuing my visits to Civil War battlefields, I went to Chattanooga. I wanted to visit Chickamauga, the first preserved Civil War battlefield, created in 1890. There are multiple areas that are part of the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park. Chickamauga has a great visitor center, a video about the battle and siege of Chattanooga. There is a QR code for an online tour or an audio tour with your phone. The Lookout Mountain and Point Park Visitor Center has more…

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Greenville, South Carolina

Greenville, South Carolina

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There are several Revolutionary War battlefields in the area I wanted to visit: Ninety Six National Historic Site, Cowpens National Battlefield and King’s Mountain National Military Park all part of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution. Each has a nice visitor center with info on the battles. I was lucky to stop by Ninety Six on the weekend when they were having a special event, 96 Crossroads, always on the first weekend of April. There were guided battlefield tours as well…

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Marietta, Georgia

Marietta, Georgia

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I wanted to see several sites in Atlanta plus the Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield but didn’t want to stay in Atlanta. The traffic there drives me mad, worse than Washington or Chicago, so I found a nice place in Marietta. There is plenty to see here and it’s not far for a visit to Atlanta. Recommendations I enjoyed walking around downtown, Marietta Square, and Glover Park. It’s a beautiful area, a lovely walking district, with many stores and restaurants. There is…

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Albany, Georgia

Albany, Georgia

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After leaving Pensacola, I headed straight north to visit the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Site, in Tuskegee, Alabama. I spent the afternoon here, visiting Hanger 1 and Hanger 2, learning so much about these brave men and women. So many people thought they weren’t capable of learning to fly or maintain the planes, they had to deal daily with the blatant racism of other military personnel, and after serving honorably they came home to repressive Jim Crow laws and more. I…

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Pensacola: Wish I Was There

Pensacola: Wish I Was There

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I returned to Pensacola for the winter; the same place I stayed for a month in February 2022 was available. I booked a month, then added on another month, then another month. After a couple years of full-time travel, it’s been nice to unpack and relax and do nothing but take long walks with my wonderful dog Boo in my East Hill neighborhood or on one of the many hiking trails in the area and enjoy a nice leisurely meal….

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The Lincoln Trail: From Kentucky to Illinois

The Lincoln Trail: From Kentucky to Illinois

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There are Lincoln sites in Kentucky, his birthplace, Indiana, where he lived from 1816 to 1830, and Illinois, where he married and lived until leaving for Washington in 1861. There are 1000s of books about this amazing man, of course, but the NPS offers a nice summary timeline of his life. Kentucky In 2019, I stopped in Elizabethtown, Kentucky on the way to Savannah to see my old friend, Jodie. During that visit, I went to Mammoth Cave. I stopped again…

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North American History: The Explorer’s Class

North American History: The Explorer’s Class

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I retired September 2019 and that winter I spent six weeks in Savannah and a week in New Orleans. I sold my house and went on the road full time in September 2020. All these great, leisurely road trips have allowed me to visit amazing historical sites and museums across the US and several Canadian provinces. While many, like the Gettysburg battlefield, the National WWII Museum or Smithsonian museums, are well-known and busy tourist attractions, others are not sites I…

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Quebec City and Montreal

Quebec City and Montreal

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Quebec City The first morning in town, Boo and I headed out to Battlefields Park and the Plains of Abraham. We walked through the park, viewing the Martello Towers, stopping to read the signs, then around the Citadel walls and onto the Terrasse Dufferin for great views of Old Quebec or Vieux Quebec. We walked back along the Rue Saint Louis and Saint Louis Gate to Esplanade Park and Parliament. Tours That afternoon I had booked the Free Walking Tour of…

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Maritime Provinces: New Brunswick

Maritime Provinces: New Brunswick

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After 3 days in Fundy National Park, I spent a week in the lovely Saint Andrews by the Sea. Saint Andrew’s Charlotte County Archives and Old Jail. From 1831 all the way to 1979 the stone jail held men downstairs in 10 cells with only narrow slits for light. Women and children were held upstairs. Two men were hung in the back, one as late as 1942. They found the scaffolding for the second hanging during remodeling and updates; that…

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Fundy National Park

Fundy National Park

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I stopped at Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park on my drive from PEI. I arrived about an hour after low tide but found the path down to the beach. Very muddy. Very weird looking. The stairwell down to the rocks on the other side blocked off but I found a path later that led down but by then tide was coming in. I went back a couple days later to see the difference at high tide. Fundy National Park is a small…

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