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zebraljb

I'm back...did you know I was gone?

Mar 14, 2018 11:56

John and I did a three-day weekend in Gettysburg. Well, not a weekend - Sunday, Monday & Tuesday. But it was extra nice for me because I got to take off from my second job (on Sundays ( Read more... )

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musiquephan March 15 2018, 13:03:22 UTC

Yay! Thank you for sharing! I will have to remember this place.

I'm glad you had a good time.

Gettysburg is so damn haunted, though. I just drive by the place and gt the willies. lol I haven't been there since I was a teenager on a fieldtrip while in highschool.

I remember visiting some of the battle grounds, etc. and actually saw a soldier O_o. That was it for me LOL.

But the B&B sounds wonderful! Maybe I will have to suck it up and visit.

zebraljb March 19 2018, 11:52:49 UTC

I don't believe in the whole ghost thing, and I myself have never seen anything. We went on one of the actual ghost hunts two years ago, with the equipment and everything? Nothing. But I know a lot of people DO believe such things, and I respect that.

There are a lot of B&Bs around Gettysburg, but this is our first time staying at one. I loved it.

musiquephan March 19 2018, 13:34:45 UTC

I have lived in 2 haunted houses and 1 haunted apartment building.

The apartment building was unnerving. The other 2 houses were comfortable, but definitely active.

I've lived in placed that are not haunted...and the energy is totally different.

The house I live in now, when I first moved in, I would get "the creeps" on the steps - both upstairs and downstairs. But it didn't feel "haunted," just "creepy." So I got my emf meter out - what I'm feeling is emf from the wiring from the garage to the switch in the hall. Totally different feeling from living in a haunted house.

brandywine28 March 15 2018, 20:05:30 UTC

I love that you're a history nerd and I love hearing about your favorites... almost as much as I love hearing about your bizarre food hang-ups. (That's not an insult! I have some of my own that would probably horrify you! We really ought to sit down one day and just weird each other out about food and see who has to tap out of the convo first. (Me, I'm guessing. I'm easily scandalized.))

zebraljb March 19 2018, 11:55:48 UTC

Over the last couple of years, I've had a heightened interest in our presidents. One of the things I MUST eventually own is a GREAT series the History Channel did a few years ago about all the presidents. Narrated by the amazing Edward Hermann (RIP). John got me great books about the presidents and first ladies over the last year, and so far we've been to Mount Vernon twice, and now to the Eisenhower farm. The only president from Pennsylvania, embarrassingly, is Buchanan, and his home isn't far from us. We're right in the middle of Ohio, New York, and Virginia, and there are like 13 presidential homes between them. Someday.

brandywine28 March 20 2018, 11:55:48 UTC

Gasp! I just remembered I've totally been to Teddy Roosevelt's house! It was years ago, though, on a middle school class trip. I'd like to go again and see it with adult eyes someday.

And of course our current President's childhood home is only about a mile from where I currently live. I know for a fact his family no longer owns it, or else I would've defecated on the lawn ages ago.

(Stuff like this is exactly why I'm surprised you're not more into Hamilton! :)

pensnest March 16 2018, 14:45:33 UTC

That sounds like a cool time. I do like seeing the sights when everyone else in the world is not also seeing them, and getting a bargain stay is also good!

But this disdain for gravy Will Not Do. At least, it might be Perfectly Reasonable, I'm not sure-I had "biscuits and gravy" once and the gravy was nasty. All right, as you were.

zebraljb March 19 2018, 11:56:18 UTC

We went to Washington DC the first week in December, and it was WONDERFUL. All the museums were half empty.

I know. Many people do not understand it.