Last day at Fort Meade. Typical day-before-we-depart boring stuff: laundry, cleaning, flush & dump tanks, partial fill on fresh water, commissary run, fuel the truck, you know the routine. The base finally mowed the grass today. First time since we arrived. Overall we have really enjoyed our stay here, not only here in the DC area but at this campground. We thought the distance from downtown was going to be a big limiting factor but after mastering the MARC train, it was not. We basically saw everything we wanted to except the museums that had no timed tickets available. Doreen saw eight lighthouses. We attended two major league baseball games. You have read about all the places we visited.
We had a good time here but we are both tired and ready to move on. We pushed it pretty hard taking hardly any days off and we have been here 18 nights including tonight. Ready to slow things down a bit.
We are very thankful having reconnected with an ol' 132d Fight Wing comrade Doug Benskin. We are also very glad we were able to have dinner with A1C Gracie Daniels and her Navy friend Nathan last night. The monuments and museums are great but friends are precious!
Tomorrow morning we move north and east to Brandywine Creek Campground near Glenmoore PA We will pass around Baltimore on the Francis Scott Key Bridge to avoid the tunnels (our propane is not allowed in the tunnels) and then NE on I-95 through Delaware and then up into Pennsylvania. The reason we are headed there is that back in 2016 when we camped near Gettysburg PA and toured the battlefield etc, we missed Valley Forge. We also hope to reconnect with one of our daughter's high school friends April Stanton Hill. April lives near Hanover PA We saw April in 2016 when we camped at Gettysburg and then again when our son graduated from the National Fire Academy in 2019. She is like a third daughter to us!
After Brandywine we will start our trek westbound towards home. We have a lot yet to see and many folks to connect up with, so this show is a long ways from over.
We are glad our health is holding out so we can travel these journeys. You never know what tomorrow will bring so as long as the guy upstairs gives us the green light we will press ahead! You have to "go for the gusto" as the Schlitz commercials used to say! Bottom line is we are very thankful!
We are glad you all are tagging along on our journey. I originally was not going to do a blog this year as it is a lot of work processing/editing the pictures and telling the stories but from the hits received on the blog and the feedback, someone is reading it, so it is worth it.
Next report: Brandywine Creek Campground, PA!
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