Train pictures

Day 3 of bus riding is getting a little old.  We do stop every 2-3 hrs for a break, and for meals, but other than that, we RIDE.  Stan, the bus driver, is competent  and friendly-- I certainly wouldn't want his job.

We've been thru Tennessee and are now into Maryland.  We've been by lots of fields with red barns and cities and towns and as we drive movies are shown on the bus.  A Dolly Parton movie (didn't watch, but it was impossible not to hear the music), a really old Richard Widmark, Willie Nelson, Angie Dickenson movie-- something about a Texas Train.    The last movie had Ashley Judd as a lawyer representing her husband in a military court for murder.

After lunch at Shoneys   we went a little farther to Roanoke, Va to see the O.Winston Link Museum ( his photography business was called O W  L).   He was a photographer in the mid-19th century who specialized in Railroad pictures.  Pictures of the steam driven trains, stopped and moving-- pictures from the trains of fields and communities and people, and pictures of passengers enjoying the ride.  The photographic equipment was included at the museum and an explanation of the workings of the equipment.  One placard was entitled, Do you remember flashbulbs?   The museum is housed in an old but well kept (and added on-to) train station in Roanoke.

After the museum we drove for several more hours to Harrisonburg, VA for supper at Bob Evans.  Nothing spectacular, nothing bad.  We had a choice of 4 dinners (it was another prepaid-prearranged meal), with a scoop of ice cream to follow.

We drove a few more hours to our hotel in Clear Springs, Maryland where for the first time on this trip our big bags left the bus and we had access to more clothes and books.
I finished book #2 and am halfway into #3.  I also got my crochet out and did a little of it.  I won't finish it on this trip (altho' I'll certainly have the time) cuz it is tedious and makes my hands tired.
We're headed to Hershey PA for a tour and then to N.J.