Road Trip Around the US: 2014

Today's my trip was to the small town of Lancaster in Pennsylvania, the center of Amish county.
I did not visit the city itself, only it's greatest Franklin & Marshall College.

College was established in 1787 and named after Benjamin Franklin, who donated £200 for the new facility. It has very interesting Revolutionary War history, but I won't stop on that, you can find article about it in Wikipedia.

Here I want to represent College's architecture and the surrounding area.

That is the first building you see in the college campus.

Conference which I attended was hosted in that building.

That is probably a former brewery on the site of which the College has been built.

The Main Colleges' building

Main building again

FM stands for Franklin & Marshall.

Greenhouse

Little garden

The College is full of sculptures. They are all around, not only in the garden

Besides of sculptures, I've spotted couple of interesting trees.

Maybe sometimes in the future I visit Lancaster's historic downtown, but for right now it's the end.

I had only half a day to spend in Richmond, but think I fully utilized my time and discovered all interesting places of the city.

Hopefully you'll enjoy it with me and maybe visit that interesting city as I did.

Started from Monument Avenue. It already had cherry blossom which we will have maybe month later.

Old buildings along the historic street.

Here was a line of confederate defense

So many famous people I've never heard of before

I assume that is old town center. Beautiful churches all around.

Get to the Monroe Park. There were a lot of homeless people waiting for food distribution, but I did not want to picture them.

That theater building looks like a Persian palace.

In the capital park

View from Virginia's government building.

"Death to Tyrants" - I like that very much!

Capitol building

Financial part of town.

Parking near the main train station and farmers market. It looks like there are a lot of military bases around Richmond if even on Sunday morning they have some training.

Old entrance to the train station.

Building of the Main train station. You can see it every time you pass Richmond via route I-95.

That is I-95.

Inside of train station

Waiting rooms

Monument of reconciliation between Liverpool, Benin and Richmond. That is about slavery trade in 18th century.

Uptown. Pretty colorful place

Office building of my potential employer.

Fountain lake in Byrd park. I assume at summer it should be very beautiful.
There is also Swan Lake, but I did not get there.

That was a real surprise to see Columbus there

World War I Memorial.

It looks like nobody in Richmond knows about that tower. I've asked about it several people and nobody mentioned it.

At first I was surprised seeing a chimney in the park, but when I saw other ones I've got that they serve as grills for weekend parties.

Here is a winter party house also with chimney

Wanted to see the James river. Had to drive around, but found very nice way to the water.

There was wonderful view on Dry Rocks

Old building of former electro-station

River goes between stones

That is only way I've found to cross the river. That piece of wood looked very stable, but I was almost in the water on the middle of it when it started moving.