Courtyard by Marriott Harrisburg West / Mechanicsburg

Travel Blogs from Mechanicsburg

Autumn: SHADES of Beginnings....

A travel blog entry by annierose

... vintage enticing us both to run down the furnace and add some more wood to warmth us, in our warmest embrace. Autumn is just a bouquet matched in no other season…a colorful scheme that blends the colors of my life. I do miss AUTUMN… This was the season to pack summer clothes and unpack the winter ones. I miss the smell of cedar chests with my cuddly warm sweater and thick warm socks. I long for the taste of hot cider or ...

Christmas Reality

A travel blog entry by cinnamongirl13

This morning I walked through Strawberry Square to get to work. They put up all of their Christmas decorations over the weekend. All of the twinkling lights and purple ribbons looked very pretty, but I realized that when those decorations come down, it'll ...

Gettysburg PA

A travel blog entry by idahotraveler

We left West Point on Sunday and made the 245+ miles to Gettysburg. Fortunately we had good roads and good weather. We are all getting pretty good at planning our travels. I am the official navigator with the GPS. Sometimes we do not always agree with the route the GPS chooses for us so we compare to our many maps....Road Atlas and a state map if we are lucky to get one. We have ...

Hershey world in the town of Hershey

A travel blog entry by shanstravels

... We enjoyed a tour through the Hershey story. We also learned how to properly taste chocolate on a chocolate tasting class and then created our very own chocolate bar and wrapper. We have yet to eat it since we've had so much chocolate already today. After a non-chocolate related meal and some shopping we bought some giant gourmet cupcakes for the ...

Day 4

A travel blog entry by wjwlincolnhwy

... That funny black protrusion sticking out of a wall was an artillery shell, and the holes in the shutters and walls of many of the houses were bullet holes.
The monuments suddenly seemed meaningful, I was staggered to find that some canon could fire up to 3 miles, and I cringed when Phil described the kind of damage the various ammunition could inflict. 51,000 were killed, wounded or captured at Gettysburg. The two hours with Phil helped me understand how ...