Photos from the Road - Latest Road Trip

Crossing the Potomac.

I’ve been away for a few days on our latest road trip.  My husband and I traveled to Pennsylvania to   We spent several days there.  Many people want to travel by air to get some place quickly.  We prefer to travel by road and see what there is to see.  The weather was favorable and we had an enjoyable trip. We traveled through four states: Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.  The traffic was heavy in Norther Virginia as we skirted Washington DC on the Beltway.  It was also heavy around Philadelphia. 
see his family.

Somewhere in Pennsylvaia.

As we headed north, we saw an amazing amount   Not all of it is lovely, but the rusty buildings have a story to tell if a person will take the time to  look around.  Some of our trip ran close to the Eastern Seaboard we were near salt water or brackish water and there was a considerable amount of rust on anything metal.  A lot of the things looked as if they needed a good coat of paint. 
of the infrastructure that makes this country run.
 

Adirondack Mountains in the distance.

 

We crossed a number of large rivers.  On the way north we crossed the Mattaponi, Potomac, the Severn, and the Delaware.  After seeing these rivers, it makes me wonder just what it would the Amazon River must look like since it is so much larger than these rivers.  On the way back we crossed the Susquehanna River, the    and South Anna rivers.    With the exceptions of the Mattaponi and South Anna, these are all very large rivers.  It would be easy to mistake any of them for being the Chesapeake Bay rather than being a river.  

Rappahannock River,

Justice without blindfold.

The East Coast has had a lot of rain and snow this year so everything was beautifully green.  The fields were green.  The forests were green.  The trees were green.  The color was broken up by deep red barns from time to time.  But by and large, after several hours the green became   It was a relief to drive through small towns from time to time.  

a bit monotonous.

An inviting Grotto in Maryland.

There were many picturesque small towns.  The main streets had older styles of stores and homes with lots of gingerbread trim.  One of the small towns had a statue with some interesting information attached to it.  The statue was on top of a municipal building.   The statue is of the figure, Justice.  Most statues are called Blind Justice because the figure is wearing a blindfold and justice is weighed out on a scale.  This particular statue has a scale, but is not wearing a blindfold.  I am told that there are only three statues like it in the country.  If Blind Justice is only weighing facts on the scale, I’m not sure   Weighing facts but also looking at circumstances maybe?

about the meaning of the Justice statue without the blindfold.

This same municipal building had a Civil War memorial in front of it. (Civil War 1861-1865) Since this was in Pennsylvania, the war memorial was called a memorial for the War of the Rebellion.  In the South, this war was called The War of Northern Aggression.  Sometimes that war was called The War Between the States.  Now it is generally called The Civil War.   Being that the war ended 150 years ago, there is no one left alive who fought in the war.  The war is long over, but not forgotten.  I hope that it can be a lesson to the rest of the world that fighting can stop and prosperity can return if people will stop fighting and give enough time for everyone to heal.

For the trip up we took Route 301.  This took us up to Pennsylvania.  It is a more pleasant drive, but in some areas it is only one lane in each direction.  It is a great ride as long as the traffic is not bad.  Of course around Washington D.C. and Philadelphia it is always heavy traffic.  On the way back we came back down Route 15 to Route 17.  That mostly took us through the countryside.  The last leg of the journey home, Route 17 runs along with Interstate 95.  Being that we were already on 95 we decided to return home by picking up Interstate 295.  At one point we could have gotten off and taken 301 but by this time we were tired and just wanted to get home as quickly as possible.  There were lots of trucks on the road, especially on 95.  Unfortunately, we arrived in Northern Virginia at rush hour and the traffic was terrible.  It was a great relief to finally arrive home.