August 23rd, Thursday – Corvettes Everywhere You Look; Gettysburg National Military Park; Packing Up

Every once in a while it’s probably good to mix things up a bit.  Take today.  Normally on the day before we move we stay close to home.  We begin packing up.  Making sure everything is in order.  Checking things once, then checking them twice.  However, today we broke with tradition.  We had a final historical site we wanted to see and spend some time at – Gettysburg National Military Park.  We spent a good three hours there and still were unable to see everything that there was in the museum.  Finally we called it quits when the battery in the camera went dead.  Unfortunately, our post of our visit

will have to wait a day or two.  As of now we have such slow internet that it is almost impossible to upload and add even compressed pictures.  Hopefully, things will get better when we move to a new home.  Keep your fingers crossed.

Can you say Corvette?  Pick a year.  Pick a color.  Pick a coupe or soft top.  They are all

around the RV park.  Why you ask?  My question indeed.  So I started asking first one, then another owner.  This is what is going on.  The largest and most fun-filled Corvette event in the world, the annual Corvettes at Carlisle is this weekend at the fairgrounds.

This event features more than 5,000 Corvettes representing all generations of America’s classic sports car. There will be an autocross, burnouts and the parade through historic downtown Carlisle.  Oh, and let’s not forget the huge swap meet with a wide variety of vendors, an all-Corvette car corral, Manufacturers Midway and Installation Alley.  It all begins tonight and runs through Sunday.

Home again after our visit to Gettysburg Barbara packed up the laundry and headed to the Wishy Washy.  This was our last chance to do the laundry for at least another week.

While Barbara was doing her thing I began to do mine.  I stashed the tire covers, put the turtle away, checked under the hood, rolled the awning up, etc.  We’re almost ready.  Just a few things left to do tomorrow morning before its jacks up and we’re ready to roll.  Since we’re only going south to the Hollywood Casino at Charlestown WV there will be no big rush tomorrow morning.  Nice.

Time now to call it a night.  I need to pack up the computer room and tidy up the solarium.  We had another fantastic day together learning even more about this great country of ours.  We thank you for joining us today and we hope you had just as great a day as we did.  In closing, let me leave you with one of the best known speeches in American history, The Gettysburg Address by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.  As I read and reread it, the last sentence caught my eye in particular.  In this land of ours, now so divided we can only pray that these words will soon ring true once again.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

As always,  if you are coming to the end of your day with concerns and worries, let me suggest that you turn them over to God.  After all, He is going to be up all night so why not let him handle them for you.

Time now for our evening prayers and eventually some shut-eye.  Till tomorrow.

These are the voyages of  Graybeard and it’s occupants, four paws and two humans.  Our continuing mission: to explore as many new states as possible, to seek out new acquaintances and make new friends, to boldly go where we have not been before