Harper's Ferry

This weekend's excursion: Harper's Ferry - a small town located at the intersection of the two big rivers Shenandoah and Potomac. Thomas Jefferson visited the town in 1733, giving a speech at what was a rather anonymous looking rock that is now named after him and rather famous; and where the radical abolitionist John Brown led his small group of followers in a famous (or so I'm told) raid in 1859 (yes, going there with someone with a Master's in history who collects random historical facts definitively added to the amount of random things I learned... as well as the fun of it :o)

The weather was not that great, but we still had a good time, and the coffee and apple pie in the local café tasted a whole lot better after an hour or so of walking around in rain coming in sideways.

The highlight of the experience may very well have been the "wet floor" signs that someone had put up at the entrance to the cemetary - imagine an empty, foggy, rather Tim Burton'esque graveyard, complete with ravens and all, and with two big yellow cones stating that the floor is wet, so we have to be cautios. Hillarious.