Labor Day Weekend, Day 1

Day 1 of our road trip; blogging after midnight without lights other than the screen, so Tam and Sarah can sleep. We're in Martinsburg, West Virginia, sort of midway among a variety of places we plan to visit, staying as we usually do at a Hampton Inn, as we usually do if one's available, after spending the day in Harper's Ferry, where we had lunch, looked around, managed to convey at least some of the history to Sarah, and then came on to our hotel. We've been to Harper's Ferry a number of times with her but she's starting to appreciate the surroundings (Jefferson says in his Notes on the State of Virginia that the view is worth a trip across the Atlantic to see, but then he was writing as a Virginia booster and they named the point from which he described the view Jefferson's Rock, so what do you expect? Worth driving from Washington to see, though.) For dinner, we ate at a fine little local Italian place, La Trattoria, where Sarah had spaghetti and kept saying, "Mamma Mia, this place is awesome!"

Tomorrow we hope to do a lot. More then.