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Published: September 4th 2016
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Gettysburg Battlefield
There are so many monuments all around this place. Can't name them all. Day 4 of our trip.
The goal for today was first to do a driving tour of Gettysburg battlefield and then drive up to Queens NY.
Our hotel was adjacent to the famous Cemetary Hill. We started there and visited all of the major sites. Gettysburg is an amazing historical location. There is so much to see with monuments everywhere. I used the official National Park Service map plus a new iPhone Battlefield App. We spent two hours but you could easily spend two or more days studying how this incredible battle developed.
My biggest surprise was the terrain of the battlefield. After doing my research and watching movies and videos I expected to see large, even mountainous ranges. I envisioned Kennesaw Mountain landscape. Instead, there are "ridges" where the battles occurred. The largest hills were Little and Big Round Top. You can drive right to the top of Little Round Top and look down at Devil's Den. This is the location of Longstreet's assault on the afternoon of July 2nd. His troops fought in The Wheatfield, Peach Orchard and Devil's Den without success. It is scary to think how these locations looked after the battles ended. Bodies
Gettysburg Battlefield
This was the largest that we saw. It is the Pennsylvania monument. everywhere for sure.
The drive up to New York was unevenful. We used Waze and my car GPS to confirm our routes and took the shortest each time there was inconsistency. We arrived by 3:00pm, in time to rest before going to the US Open. Our hotel included free parking and we were happy to park and forget it for a couple days. Our Open tickets were for the 7:00pm session. The hotel was about 1/2 mile from the Long Island RR.
About 6:00pm we walked to the LIRR station and got two senior tickets for $10. The ride to the Open was only six or seven minutes. This is the same station for the NY Mets and where the 1995 World's Fair was located.
The lines for the Open were long to get through security but we passed through the "no-bag" line pretty quick. Once inside we discovered that we could enter any of the stadiums, including the Arthur Ashe Stadium, since our tickets were for those matches. We were uncertain about umbrellas so we decided not to bring them, even though rain was in the forecast. We later regretted this decision.
The match that
Gettysburg Battlefield
On Picket's charge, there were a copse of trees that was fought around. They still maintain and protect these trees. we watched was the Rafael Nadal vs Andreas Seppi. Nadal won in three sets. During the match it began to rain and they suspended play and closed the new roof. This was the first ever time that it was used. Since it was late we decided to leave a little early to beat the crowd. We wanted to use UBER to ride back to our hotel only eight miles away. Seemed like a good idea at the time. But we were told to exit in the back towards the World's Fair sphere. Once we got there it was chaos. There were lots of UBER drivers but all in black limos. They wanted $65 to take us back. I could not use my UBER app to call in a X car. So, we finally convinced one of the drivers to take us back for $35 cash. The lesson is if you go to a night match, make sure you have a car lined up to take you home. And take some cash.
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