Friday Sep 5, 2008

260 Miles.
Well today we went for a quick trip to Fredericksburg, VA .
On the way we stopped at Montpelier, James Madison's home.
It was at Montpelier where Madison researched past democracies and conceived of the system of government that became our republic. He and Dolly were not home so we moved on. We did get a pic of his temple and the grounds.After stopping we can across the park where John Leland and James Madison had their meeting to hammer out the constitution position on the separation of church and state. Moving along we found a place Tom wanted to see. We could get no closer than .7 th of mile so Kathy stayed with the car and Tom walked in through the corn. So here is the grave of "Stonewall" Jackson's left arm. He was wounded by his own troups and the arm was saw off. The chaplin buired it here at his home. Just away from the Wilderness Battlefield.
Now you know why Gen. Robert E. Lee called Jackson his "righthand man ". (sorry I had to)
Speaking of Gen. Lee we visited the headquartes and battlefield lookout point over Fredericksburg. Here is Kathy at the vantage point. The trees have grown but the town is a mile down the slope. We had a nice 20 minute hike up to the site. If you open this pic you might see the church steeples.

Well all this walking got us hungry.
So I surprised Kathy with a trip to a restaurant I had looked up on the internet. The name is Tim's II and it is on the Potomac River.

Big deal I know, but we are standing in Virginia and the restaurant is in Maryland! The border is the river bank not the middle of the river. So we had Maryland Crab Cakes in Maryland!
This is a warfside dinning and here comes a new customer.

We had crab cake starters and then Kathy had Fish Tacos! I had a crab cake sandwich, terrific!!!
Great lunch and a good time was had by all. The staff was busy as the TS Hanna was bearing down on the area and they were expecting high winds and tides.
We enjoyed our lunch and our historic tour then headed home.
I took many pics on the way of things to waymark.
Back to the resort to a late dinner and get ready to leave in the morning.