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Betty down the middle of the fairway as usual.
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Thursday, October 9, 2014
North Carolina
7/10/14 - leaving Virginia for North Carolina
The route to Tanglewood RV Campground tooks us past Front Royal and the Blue Ridge Mountain range again. Check out the fog...we knew we were going to be driving towards it.
Splendid display of bushes at a Rest Area...they are not flowers but leaves on these bushes that have turned crimson for autumn.
The drive to Tanglewood, NC was a beautiful drive....best display of autumn colours we've seen.
This little cutie was parked at Tanglewood....check out the awning over the window!!
Here we are nestled among the trees...its a lovely park, lots of walking trails, swimming pool, golf, horse rides.
The Tanglewood Championship Golf Course...quite challenging, long par 3s and 5s. I have never seen so many bunkers on a golf course.
We were paired with Eric(in white) and John(in red) - both were big hitters, massive drives! They were a lot of fun to play with.
Virginia
5/10/14 - Natural Bridge, Virginia
More signs of autumn approaching....
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Tom was rather enamoured with the Vista Links Golf course...it was a chilly 5 degrees when he played that morning.
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It was a tough but enjoyable course to play with rolling hills and natural grass land.
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A tough par 3 of 230 yards and virtually no fairway from the tee box.
The Blue Ridge Mountain range surrounding this golf course.
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It was a short stay for us at this KOA..only 2 nights.
West Virginia
2/10/14 West Virginia
As playing a round of golf in every state is on Tom's bucket list, we decided to do an overnighter in Front Royal, Virginia. We left Al our 5th wheel at Cherry Hill RV Park, Maryland as it was about an hour and a half to West Virginia and another hour to Front Royal, Virginia. It would have been too much of a drive to play 18 holes of golf and then drive back to Cherry Hill.
Tom had checked on the net and found that our best chance of seeing the fall colours was in the Shenandoah Valley, up on the Blue Ridge Mountains. Rain was forecast for that day - the sunny weather seen here at the Visitor's Centre was short lived.
The picture doesn't do it justice but the drive up the mountain range was like a scene from a calendar...beautiful gold, bronze and vermilion coloured trees lined both sides of the road.
Golfing at Locust Hill Golf Club in West Virginia, this golf club had a few remnant buildings of the Civil War dotted around the course and plaques commemorating battles that had been fought.
Betty in full flight on an island tee box, she had to hit about 100 yards across the water and put it on the green.
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Virginia turned out its autumn colours for us..glorious rich colours.
We've always wanted to try a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Restaurant so on the morning of our departure from Front Royal we breakfasted there. What a plethora of knick knacks, biscuits, sweets,gifts, beautiful winter wraps etc.
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Cracker Barrel - I ordered a large breakfast of pancakes, two eggs and bacon which was slow in in arriving and as a result they did not charge me for it - now that is good customer service.
The Shenandoah Valley of West Virginia and taken from the Blue Ridge Mountains is where many Civil War confrontations took place between the Blues and the Greys.
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A pending storm coming up the valley which hit us within minutes and reduced our visibility to only feet and given the winding road along the mountain ridge made it somewhat dangerous.
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It costs $15 per car to enter the Shenandoah National Park..this pass is good for 7 days.
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The exit of the Shenandoah National Park, West Virginia that we departed from back to Cherry Hill, Maryland..
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Washington DC Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
October 1st 2014
Today we visited the famous Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington DC and it is as good as everyone says it is. We took a guided tour so that everything was explained to us and I found it well worth while plus it is free. Having visited NASA Houston Betty found a lot of the space stuff rather boring especially since there was no decent shop.
Today we visited the famous Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington DC and it is as good as everyone says it is. We took a guided tour so that everything was explained to us and I found it well worth while plus it is free. Having visited NASA Houston Betty found a lot of the space stuff rather boring especially since there was no decent shop.
The above is Dick Rutan's Voyager which flew around the world non stop.
A general view of the main entry hall.
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Scaled Composites Space Ship One
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The original Wright Flier
Amelia Earhart's aircraft
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The Spirit of St. Louis that Charles Lindberg first flew the Atlantic from New York to Paris in.
Washington DC
28/9/14 - Washington DC
Betty snapped this picture when we were passing through Baltimore, there were several planes towing banners over what I assume was a stadium
Tom - The famous Union Station which is a railway station for several railway companies, a bus terminus and also houses the Washington Metro, it is a huge building with many shops and restaurants and would rival many airports in its layout.
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A glimpse of Capitol Hill.
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Smithson's will left the bulk of his estate to his nephew. But should his nephew die without children—legitimate or illegitimate—a contingency clause stated that the estate would go to "the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge…" A sum of $508,318 was bequeathed to the USA.
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The Reflection Pool with the Washington Monument in the background, and further still is Capital Hill. This is the pool where Forest Gump and Jenny connected again in the well known movie.
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In life, President Abraham Lincoln was 6ft 4ins. tall - this Georgia white marble sculpture is 19 feet from head to foot. The Memorial was dedicated on May 30th, 1922
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The White House...no, we could not gain entry to it.
The visit to the Museum of Natural History was worth its weight in...ahem..diamonds! The Hope Diamond, once weighing 112 carats is now a modest 45.52 carats. More on the Hope diamond click here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Diamond
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The Hall & Bismarck Sapphire necklaces....buys a whole lot of chicken breasts!! The Hall Sapphire necklace was designed by Harry Winston - it has 435 diamonds totalling 83.75 carats .Total weight including the sapphires - 195 carats...mind boggling!!
Designed by Cartier in 1935, the Bismarck necklace (on the right) is a whopping 98.6 carats of cornflower blue Sri Lankan sapphire owned by Countess Mona von Bismarck and donated to the Smithsonian Institute in 1967.
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