Here’s a rough schedule. As we keep saying on this trip: the best plan is the one that’s open to change.
March 6, Thursday – leave KC for Louisville, KY (535 mi)
see: Nostalgiaville in Kingdom City
see: Paul Bunyan in Wentzville
March 7, Friday – leave Louisville for Charlottesville, VA (489 mi)
dinner with new friends Scott and Alyssa
March 8, Saturday
Monticello, www.monticello.org
Richmond National Battlefield Park, http://www.nps.gov/rich/
Then travel to Williamsburg (122 mi)
March 8-13 hotel: Howard Johnson Inn Williamsburg
March 9, Sunday – Colonial Williamsburg, www.historyisfun.org
March 10, Monday – Colonial Williamsburg
March 11, Tuesday – Jamestown Settlement
March 12, Wednesday – Yorktown Battlefield and Victory Center
March 13 , Thursday – Virginia Aquarium, http://www.virginiaaquarium.com/
March 14 Friday – travel to Washington, DC (148 mi)
Arlington House, http://www.nps.gov/arho/
Arlington Cemetery, http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/
Then stay with Uncle Dick and Aunt Sally Morrell
March 15, Saturday – Cookout at Morrells
rest, laundry!
March 16-19 hotel: Sleep Inn, Laurel, MD
March 16, Sunday – National Zoo, http://nationalzoo.si.edu/
March 17, Monday – Natural History Museum, http://www.smithsonian.org/museums/ National Mall, http://www.nps.gov/nama/
March 18, Tuesday – More Smithsonian
March 19 Wed – Leave DC for NYC; about 200 Miles
Bus tour of NYC
Stay at Newark Airport Hotel
March 20 Thurs – http://www.centralpark.com/
March 21, Friday Leave New York for Philadelphia (< 100 mi) Reading Terminal Market, http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/ Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum, http://www.cwurmuseum.org/ Society Hill, http://www.ushistory.org/districts/societyhill/ Then stay at Sleep Inn, King of Prussia, PA March 22 Sat – Independence National Park, http://www.nps.gov/inde
March 23, Sun
More of above
Philadelphia Museum of Art, http://www.philamuseum.org/ (Rocky!)
March 24, Mon –
Valley Forge National Park, http://www.nps.gov/vafo/
Hershey’s Chocolate World, http://www.hersheys.com/chocolateworld/chocolate_tour.shtml
Then head for home, staying ???
March 25 Tues – ???
March 26 Wed. – arrive home