Grandad Making Memories

The post WW2 areas included the early Cold War , Korea , Vietnam , and the Iraq wars , and the War on Terror post 9/11. The Korean War area had a really good display on the battles at the Chosin reservoir. This was a battle fir in the extremes of the Korean winter in…

The United States Marine Corps museum was also on my radar for this trip , and it was only a short run out from Manasses . It covers the complete history from the creation of the Corps right through to its battles and challenges in modern time . I think this is one of the…

We continued to work our way around the west of Washington crossing the Potomac at Shepherdstown and taking us into Virginia We worked our way down to Harpers Ferry . The town was the scene of the John Brown raid on the federal armoury there in 1859 to arm slaves. This was a precursor that…

Our next short drive took us through the Appalachians to the small town of Sharpsburg and the battle of Antietam – named from the creek that runs through it . We were staying for two nights at The Inn at Antietam. Again we had a days tour of the the battlefield. Antietam was a 1…

After doing the museum and cyclorama which really set the scene for the actual battle itself . We met up with our pre booked battlefield guide – which had been organised via the museum itself – for a a half day explore . We followed the 3 days of the battle chronologically. So we started…

It was only a short drive to Gettysburg from Lancaster . We had two days planned in to visit the museum and do a a days visit to the battlefield using the service of a professional accredited guide . We stayed at a historic building The Lightner Farmhouse which was used as a hospital for…

We had the opportunity to do another North America visit this summer to attend the wargaming convention at Lancaster Pennsylvania. We decided to tag on some extra days to cover off some of the American Civil War battlefields on the western side of Washington . This would be Gettysburg from 1863 , Fox Gap &…

Having driver through the Rockies we headed east back to Toronto and Niagara . We were at the Fairmont Royal York hotel with a view over to the CN tower from our room. That was handy as we decided to pay it a visit the next day. After visiting the CN tower we had a…

We were staying at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel which as you might imagine had view out over the harbour . It was also very well located for us to walk over to Harbour Air and do the seaplane ride we had booked – which was Mountains and Glaciers . With a damp day ahead we…

We were at the Fairmont Jasper Park lodge for a few days with a trip out to Maligne Lake and onto Whistiers Mountain via the Skytram The Maligne tour was a bus ride and then onto the Lake with a visit to Spirit Island . The lake had only been opened up that week as…