The inspiration for this trip is a Rowing Luncheon in Philadelphia, and excellent Museum Exhibits in Norfolk and Washington!
Day Four - Heading Home, with a stop at West Point
551 actual miles today (total 1631 miles for the four days); left Jessup, MD at 8 AM, home at 8 PM.
I was really blessed with traffic (or rather, lack thereof). I hadn't thought about it before, but i first had to drive 15 miles towards Baltimore before continuing northeast, and here I was going to be in Monday Morning Rush Hour TRAFFIC! I don't know why, but, although there were a lot of cars on the road, we all moved along quickly, and I got through the Baltimore tunnel easily (Thank You God!). I then just stayed on 95 until it dumped me onto the New Jersey Turnpike, and then took the exit for the Garden State Parkway north. I wound up going north on the Palisades Interstate Parkway, which runs through some beautiful woods/mountains:
I stopped at the Visitor Center - to quote a website: The Palisades Parkway Visitor Center and Bookstore is "The only bookstore in the area located on an island in the middle of a parkway!"
The Appalachian Trail runs right near here:
In the Bookstore I got a really cool map of the AT.
A few more miles, and I was at West Point:
I didn't know if it was correct, but I thought that since West Point is smack dab in the middle of where the Hudson River School artists lived, maybe the West Point Museum had some pictures. I was wrong. The exhibits are concerned with the History of War (and its horrors), and the History of the U.S. Armed Services - it was nice to see that the Civil War was not depicted as "the North winning against the South", but rather as a tragic episode in which graduates of the same institution wound up fighting and killing each other. It was sad, but necessary, to see the History of Man through his warfare, because, as George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
I then headed north to get to 84 East, which took me through Connecticut to the Mass Pike. Stops at some libraries, and home by 8 - Thank You God for a Great Day, and a Great Trip! The Fit worked GREAT!
Music today was albums, but I don't remember the list (Delirious?, Bob Marley, Coldplay, The Head And The Heart, Jimi Hendrix, ...)
Shameless Plug: if you enjoy this blog, you may like my other one about Hiking the 4,000 footers in New Hampshire (I have done 41-of-48 thru October 2015)
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