HMS Beangle

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Category: Pennsylvania

  • Racing Through Six States in One Month (Goodbye EST)

    I feel like we’ve done a speed run from Acadia National Park through Michigan. We didn’t get to see all the people we wanted to, and we didn’t get to spend near enough time with the folks we did get to see. Having a few hard and fast deadlines has made this leg of the…

  • A surfeit of death (or, The rebirth of a nation)

    It’s 163 years since the three day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863) concluded and Lee’s army slipped back into Virginia (July 4, 1863). The following are my thoughts related to the battlefields we visited in Virginia and Pennsylvania. I admit that by the end of them, I was a bit battlefield and Civil War’d…

  • Ives Run and The BOG

    Set your brain in reverse for a moment, back to early May… You can imagine our raised eyebrows when we saw sign after sign for The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania. Oh, sweetie. After a very good breakfast at the only and somewhat dubious-looking restaurant in Tioga, Pennsylvania, we drove over to see this natural phenomenon.…