Not too much to report today as it was a 6-hour drive day. We left our new friends in Rheinau this morning heading back into France. After driving for almost 2 1/2 hours, we stopped at the St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial. It’s dedicated to dead and missing from WWI. It was much larger than other WWI cemeteries we’ve been to, and like all of them, was very beautiful and peaceful.
From the cemetery it was a short, 15-minute drive to Montsec Monument, commemorating the Battle of St. Mihiel in September 1918, a victory for the Allied forces. In spite of achieving their objectives, the cost in lives was very high. Many of the men buried in the cemetery were killed in that battle.
Peter didn’t climb the stairs, so I stayed up there only long enough to grab a few pics. The view was beautiful.
We had our lunch looking out over the beautiful French countryside.
Then it was back in the car for the more than a 3-hour drive to next lodging. It’s a beautiful house that we could easily live in, if we wanted to live in the middle of nowhere…which we don’t. But we’re only 90 minutes from our first stop tomorrow….Orleans.
Beautiful pictures as always. Love seeing where you guys have been and especially what you’ve been eating. Still jealous of all your time in France. Maybe Les and I will get there in 2023.
Thanks Connie. I never used to post food pictures until my friend Cynthia told me I absolutely had to. I get more comments about food than anything else. Who knew??