Lancaster, Pennsylvania
July 8, 2022 We spent a day in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where Jane’s father lived. For supper we met Jane’s nephew Andy Esbenshade and Andy’s wife Lisa at John Wright’s Restaurant in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania.
Washington, D.C.
July 7 and 11, 2022 Our purpose in going in to the District was [you might guess] to claim some geocaches. We attended a geocaching meet and greet with about 10 other people, snapped a screen shot of us waving at a webcam, took a selfie at the oldest geocache Read more…
Delaware: Geocaching
July 6, 2022 We drove to Delaware from College Park, Maryland with the objectives of seeing Delaware’s capitol and finding Delaware’s oldest geocache. The cache is located in Trap Pond State Park, about an hour south of the capital. On our way home we stopped by Bridgerton for a cache Read more…
Richmond, Virginia: Geocaching
July 1-5, 2022 Our base for visiting the Richmond area was Ashland, Virginia in a campground we discovered on our way to the Maritime Provinces in 2016. Americamps offers entertainment, clean showers, ice cream and waffles, and pleasant sites. Ashland was developed as a mineral springs resort in the 1840’s Read more…
Richmond, Virginia: The Virginia State Capitol
July 2, 2022 The first session of the Virginia legislature took place in Jamestown in 1619. The legislature then met in various locations in Jamestown and Williamsburg until 1780 when the capital was moved to Richmond. Lawmakers began meeting in the new Capital in 1788. Thomas Jefferson was serving as Read more…
Near Raleigh, North Carolina: Geocaching
June 28-30, 2022 Dave knew of Jane’s interest in looking into her maternal grandfather’s family to see if she has a connection to General James P. Robertson who was one of the founders of Nashville, Tennessee, so we found a virtual geocache about General Robertson. Pullen Park opened in 1887. Read more…
Raleigh, North Carolina: State Capitol
June 29, 2022 North Carolina’s capitol was built between 1833 and 1840 at a cost of $532,682. The original architect was William Nichols, Jr. He was replaced by the New York firm of Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis. Those plans were modified by David Paton. Dave and Jane had Read more…
Columbia, South Carolina: State House
June 27, 2022 Construction on South Carolina’s State House began in 1855 and when the Civil War started only the foundation and exterior walls had been completed. Little work was done until 1885-95 when the interior decor was completed. The dome, porticos, and exterior steps were added last and the Read more…
Columbia, South Carolina: Geocaching
June 24-27, 2022 The oldest cache in South Carolina is near Augusta, Georgia, about 60 miles from where we were staying in Columbia. We took a day trip. The cache is located along Modoc Trail, a 5-mile mountain biking trail in the Sumter National Forest. The cache was about 500 Read more…