[John Robertson]

Thank you, Freepers--thank you all! Good suggestions. We are now armed for our weekend. Again, you all have a great weekend, too.

[blu]

If it is still allowed, when you get to Big and Little Round Top, climb them. Close your eyes, ignore the modern world (this also works great on Cemetery Hill) and just feel the history.

[The Game Hen]

Don't do what I did. My two daughters and I wanted to stop by the visitor's center. We found a parking space half a mile away. After trudging up to the front door we were barred from entering because I had a backpack. There were no lockers and they wouldn't check it or hold it like every other museum at the Smithsonian. They had to put in a plug for more funding so that they could afford to do what the Smithsonian does.

I decided to skip it rather than walk a mile to lock it up in my car. Strangely, they had no problem with me taking my "suspicious" backpack into the bathroom under the Visitor's Center.