re: #162 lawhawk

I don’t use the Passport, but have a map that I’ve highlight all of our trips, and pretty much every one of our domestic trips involves figuring out where the nearest national park is.

We’ve got a trip planned for later this year that will hit a bunch of Civil War sites through MD, PA, and VA, along with Shenandoah NP.

And I’m already looking ahead to another trip out West - possibly to Oregon and Crater Lake and/or Redwoods.

I’m also looking to hit Great Falls in NJ this weekend (want to catch the nearly frozen falls in person).

We did the “hired guide” at Gettysburg. It was relatively inexpensive and IIRC, they drive your car around and park at various places. Then they give an oral/guided tour of the battlegrounds.

At one point, we were standing on what seemed to me to be well manicured grass and a bit of a hill. The guide said that 5,000 soldiers died, right there where we were standing.

Until that point I was rather bored. There wasn’t much to see, grass, a few trees, bushes, and sky. I don’t care to hear about troop movements—from here to 40 feet away —more grass, few trees …

Then I realized I was standing on blood.

I lost it and ran back to the car and bawled my eyes out.