Gettysburg day 1

 Off to Gettysburg for a couple of days. First stop was Eisenhower's house and farm in Gettysburg which he left to the nation.

Pimple posed outside by a bell that had the presidential coat of arms on it.

I posed gazing thoughtfully over part of the Gettysburg battlefields.

A random bug.

A park ranger gives you a talk on Eisenhower and the importance of the farm in his life. He essentially used it as a sort of countryside White House. He bonded with Nehru and Churchill over prize cattle apparently. All went well with Khrushchev here until the whole U2 spy plane disaster rather put a spanner in the works. You then tour the house, which tells you they really loved tacky little ornaments (there are cabinets full of them), and Ike read a lot of classic 50's thriller paperbacks.

We stopped off briefly so Pimple could pose on a cannon. We are going to the battlefield museum tomorrow so expect more photographs in the same vein.

We parked up at our hotel in town and walked to The Shriver House. A lady in period costume, who looked a little like Mrs Doubtfire, tells you all about what life was like for the civilians during the Battle of Gettysburg. Not sure what the t-shirt means that the guy is wearing? Mrs Doubtfire took us to one side to ask what we thought of Harry and Meghan. She is obviously following them closely and I suspect doesn't like them. 

Gettysburg has a remarkable number of paranormal, magic and mysticism shops. There are also a lot of ghost tours you can take, usually by candlelight, and at locations all around Gettysburg. We are managing to resist this tempting offer.

Saw the best bit of Trump nuttiness today. A badass truck with a giant flag flowing behind it featuring Trump with a guitar a la Bruce Springsteen!!