Jam anyone? Traffic that is.

Today we left the KGB headquarters (Left) otherwise known as "Pier 7 Restaurant Channel Inn". You know something when they put the restaurant name before the Hotel don't you? Normaly here the hotel has a restaurant not the restaurant a hotel. Anyway we are on our way to Baltimore for two nights. Being that the drive was only 30 miles we decided to go and have a look at the Manassas Battlefields and then on to the Fredericksburg battlefield before going to Baltimore.

The Manassas or Bull run Battlefields are still pretty well preserved and give a good indication of what they were like 150 years ago. The 1st bull run was quite a small battlefield and must have been quite compact at the time. We only were able, due to time constraints, able to see the part where "Stonewall Jackson" got his name. It was reported that General Bee said to his men in an attempt to rally them, look over there, there's Jackson standing like a stonewall.

From there we went onto Fredericksburg where we found the battlefield after some difficulty.  Not much left of it these days as house now occupy the line of advance for the Federal troops.

Pretty much the only thing the remains are some houses still standing and the outlines of others who survived the battle but not the years afterward.

The infamous sunken road from which the Confederates repulsed repeated charges by the union troops was rebuilt in original position, bjut only a small part of it is the original wall now.
Worth seeing but a battlefield overtaken by time.




Finally we left to drive the 100 miles to Baltimore and there the epic started. Despite the navigator we managed to miss the turnoff, which would take us around Washington.

So we struck a traffic jam on the interstate just as our Navigator (Tokyo Rose) as Jim calls her, decided that we had to take a closed road.

So the picture left is what we saw for the next hour or so until we eventual took the Baltimore Pike way and although busy managed to get to our Hotel. Situated close to the ball park where we are going tonight, but not in a great looking neighbourhood.

Saw this little fellow at Fredricksburg in the Car park.

He was having a ball with a red bird. Looked like he needed a feed, very scrawny looking Squirel.



Heading to the B&O museum today and then the Baseball tonight.

Cheers.

Neil.