ENTRANCE TO THE INFAMOUS

LL BEAN!!

We drove up to Freeport, Maine and shopped at L.L. Bean!  Lynn can check it off her 

“Bucket List” now!  It was a pretty cool place, and yes we found something we “just had to have”  ( - =

Today we went to the beach. We walked along the Atlantic Ocean and played in the waves and collected sea shells and feed the seagulls....author Tom

                                      

This is our rig or H.O.W.  (House on Wheels)

 We ended up eat at the Run of the Mill Brew Pub in Saco, Maine.  This was a refurbished factory that started out in the 1600’s as a lumber mill progressing over the next 200 years to become an iron forging factory and ended up as giant cotton milling factories employing up to over 9000 people in the 1800’s!  They make great beer but doesn’t hold a candle to Portland, Oregon microbrews!!!!!

Paul Rever

Our next adventure was at Plymouth Rock when the first settlers came or more famously pilgrims.  We went back to the 17'th century and saw how it was like for the Pilgrims and the Indians.  We saw how the pilgrims survived buy harvesting corn and trading with the Indians. The Indians were struggling too. The Pilgrims brought diseases to the Indians. Villages where wiped out and thousands died.  The homes were simple they had mud walls dirt floors and thatched roofs.

The next day we went to Boston and followed the Freedom Trail.  The Freedom Trail is a trail that goes by all the fames land marks like the spot of the Boston Massacre.  We also saw Kings Chapel and the Old North Church.  We herd the story how the British learned that there was ammunition in Lexington and Concord. They sent 800 men to take the ammunition. When they got there the got the locale militia a battle broke out and they where forced to retreat.  The British found out that a spy had signaled riders to go to Lexington to warn them of the British. The genus plane was from the rider Paul Revere.  He became a hero of our country.   

Park Street Church 

Samuel Adams, the great brewers grave.

Paul Revere's grave.

King's Chapel

                                                              Inside of King's Chapel

                marker for the Freedom Trail

 Statue of Paul Revere

Old North Church

                                     
                                              Inside of the Old South Meeting House

 Yesterday we went to West Point Military Academy.  We took a tour of the complex and we got  to see the chapel and Washington Hall.  We learned how a very successful General Benedict Arnold was giving the other side info about what Americans were doing.  He was one of the most famous traitors in American history.

 The next day we went to the Mystic Aquarium and saw some beluga whales.  They kind of look  like white dolphins but cooler and weigh one ton.  We also saw lots of fish in the indoor part, like piranhas and eels.  At the end I got to pet a shark!

On the same day we got to Mystic Seaport at latitude 41n, longitude 71W.  We saw how sailors used stars to guide themselves and how lighthouses were vital back then.  Also we got to go on a real whaling ship named Charles W.  Morgan.

Today we were going to get out of our campsite then SCCCRRRERERER!!!  We got out and see the fire pit ring was on the wheel.  Just a little delay to the start of our day.

To Liberty!

I started to day off to getting little to no sleep but we still got up at 8:00 in the morning and drove to the nearest train satiation. We got off at the stop near Independence Hall at Washington Square to see the Liberty Bell and take a the tour of Independence Hall. After the long wait to see the Liberty Bell we rushed to the tour of Independence Hall. Once we got there we where told that Independence Hall was the place where the Declaration of Independence was signed. It is the birthplace of America.

After a long bus ride we got off at Americas most dreaded and historic prison Eastern State Penitentiary.    Most people think Alcatraz is the most dreaded prison but this one is different. Each prisoner gets a cell to him self and only one book the bible to read. He never gets to see other prisoners wen he does they where hoods to work and only get to go out side for other reasons occasionally. They are manly locked in  there cells and almost never go out side there exercise court.     Many just went insane or over that some died of the yellow fever, some killed them selves. Some communicated through banging on pipes or through a hole in the decomposing wall. The ones caught talking are forced to wear the metal gag. It go's in the mouth and is attached to the hands crossed behind the back casing excruciating pain.  It was a horrible place.  They finally shut it down in the 1970's.   Today the prison is being protected buy the historical society.

To end the day we did the ghost tour around historic Philly.

The Navy & Mount Vernon

Two days ago we went to George Washington's Mount Vernon.  We came to the visitor center and got tickets to the mansion tour.  We saw the slaves rooms, George Washington's garden's and visited it his tome.   We also did a tour on how the movie National Treasure it was about how it was filmed in the basement of the mansion (the secret tunnel).

The next day we went to the United States Naval Academy.  We got a tour of the complex and how the first year is at the Academy and the history of the academy.  We visited Jone Paul Jones tomb then we headed back to the RV,

after we got back to the RV park we played ping pong and chess .

I am black and mom is white (I won).

We are having a lot of fun and wish you where all here. I can still show you! See you next time.

Night at the museum

We went to the Natural History Museum.  We saw sea creatures and a big blue wale.

We explored the early humans and learned how they hunt make tools and survive.  We finally came out to have lunch and learned something vital squirrels like Cheetos.

After the lunch break we went and saw how the earth was made and saw lots of gems.  We saw quarts, gold, and diamonds.  Then we went and saw the Hope Diamond
 and T Rex from the movie the Night in the Museum.  We finally went to the gift shop and got two cool rocks and a stuffed panda.

After that we walked to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and then went to the Lincoln Memorial too.  Last we walked to the metro station - in all we walked 5 miles!   D:

See you next time!

The Capital

                                                  
  Today we went to the National Archives. We saw the one and only Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta written in the 1500's, and the Bill of Rights written in 1791.   I felt proud to be a American.
    We went to the Library of Congress and tour guide told us that the stairs have been used so much that they where curved.  We also saw the oldest map ever and the books that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson.

 We got to sit in Kurt Schrader our U.S Representative's chair.

This is me standing in the center of the U.S Capitol. It gives you good luck.