BUT for today:
When we started traveling full time we
had no aim. We wanted to see high
profile places such as Yellowstone, Mt Ranier and Mt Vernon. But we got a kick out of the small towns and
communities. I have said before we had a plan to drive 300-400 miles and stop
for a week. During that week travel the
area to see what was there.
WE saw many of our former president’s
homes and some of
the leaders of our country during revolutionary & civil war time. Funny about
Presidents, one of the low profile presidents, President Buchanan history and
quotes sticks out above Truman, Reagan and Washington. (I mentioned this in a
blog in 2017.)
Buchanan never married, but the thing I
remembered most was the quote as he and Lincoln rode in a coach, pulled by
horses of course, to Lincoln’s inauguration. President Buchanan said to Abe,
“If you are as happy taking this office as I am leaving it, YOU SIR, ARE ONE
HAPPY MAN!”
What struck me at Mt Vernon was how they
stored the ice cut in the winter that lasted way into the summer. Also George
was a Bible reader and his Bible was there on a podium. It was the original 1611
King James version. Just scanning some words were spelled different than I am
used to. Examples:
“sawes”®“saws”
“harrowes”®“harrows”
“yron”®“iron”
“yron”®“iron”
“passe”®“pass”
“brick=kilne”®“brickkiln”
“And thus”®“and thus”
It is not a big thing and I am sure the words mean
the same, it just read different to me.
I liked Monticello also. Jefferson had some fantastic clocks. I was
fascinated by one weight driven pendulum clock that the weights went thru the
floor down to the basement, allowing it to run longer without pulling the
weights back up!
This is "In Tents", his trail name. He gave me permission to take his picture if he didn't have to get up!!! (Our trail name was The Overland Hermits".
Anyway today I am just doing my normal, 'old man thang', remembering. LOL
As I close this I want to wish you all a
VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR… This is 2026, now
get used to using it. LOL I am so old I typed “This is 1926” and had to correct
it.
Nite
Shipslog
PS: Thank
you for coming his way. Blogging is
headed down the road as Journaling did a few years ago. I miss so many of the bloggers who have dropped
out, slowed down or passed to the other side..…
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