This is the view from the terrasse at the National Cicil War Museum in Harrisburg. The Museum is extremely well done and is a great place to get an overall impression of the 1861 to 1865 Civil War. They have found way to explain the sequence of battles in each of the years and to effectively convey the different and often conflicting points of view and emotions of the time by having actors portray a number of people, including both union and confederate sympathizers and a slave and his wife. You are introduced to these characters throough a series of short clips at the beginning of the display and then you find them all again at various points during the visit which follows the chronology of the five year period. I feel that I learned a lot about the war, the main players, and the issues which dominated the battlefields and the political arena during that time.
This is a picture of the National Museum.After a two and a half hour visit to the museum I left Harrisburg and headed south along Route 11. The sun was blazzing and the temperature reached a high of 39 degrees. I stopped for lunch at the North Hanover Grille in Carlisle just south of Harrisburg. The ice tea was good, the Philly steak sandwich not so much.
I guess because I'm riding on secondary highways, which means that I go through a number of small cities and towns with traffic lights and reduced speed limits, it feels like this trip so far is much hotter than others. I have to remind myself to stop occasionally to drink some liquids. I'm becoming addicted to the 32 ounce bottle of Gatorade (I don't care what Mayor Bloomberg says).
These are more of the day lillies that in some areas line the highway for long stretches.
I arrived at The Washington Hotel in Winchester Virginia under cloudy skies at around 6 pm and, after a shower to cool down I went out in the old part of the city for dinner.
Tomorrow I continue south towards Waynesboro and Buena Vista.
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