Saturday – driving to Washington
June 6th, 2010 | Published in Holiday 2010
We got breakfast in a store in Floyd, and then began the drive to Washington. We stopped at the quiet town of Lexington for lunch. We had a look at the grand buildings of the Washington and Lee University, and saw the grave of General Robert E. Lee and his horse Traveler. By the chapel at the university was Robert E. Lee’s office, preserved exactly as he left it when he was last there in 1870, apparently, shortly before he died. There was round table in the middle of the room with some old-looking documents on it.
We had a look round Lexington, a nice old red-brick town, failing to find General Stonewall Jackson’s house, and then drove on up the Shenandoah valley to our hotel near the airport at Dulles.
