Historic Forts of the United States of America!
While travelling around the world we often here people speaking about how wonderful Europe is, steeped in history and buildings so spectular they are breath taking. One can never disagree with this, as you have only to visit Paris and see the wonderful “Eifel Tower”. London has buildings that can take you back so far in time like “London Bridge”, think of how many famous people traversed there. Dublin with its world famous “Kilmainham Jail“, that was the last home to the Irish heros of the 1916 and 1921, and of course Berlin with its famous “Brandenburg Gate” ist auch sehr schon. The list goes on and on, but lets not forget our own country that is the United States. I shall take you on a journey;
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The Journey of Forts State by State;
Starting our trip in the cold of State of Alaska where you still have wild and desolate landscapes, not harmed by us humans as you may experience in other places. The Eskimoes and the Aleut traditions live side by side, and this is where many tourist go to see the Northern Lights. In this State we have three famous forts namely “Fort Greely”, “Fort Richardson” and “Fort Wainwright” which are now used by the US Military. Ft Richardson is close to Anchorage and FT Greely,Ft Wainwright are in the area of Fairbanks.Flying south we land in Washington State the gateway to the Rockies and just beautiful for camping, fishing, hunting and fishing. The volcanos of St.Helens, Adams and Rainer and today Rainer is an active volcano. Washington has a glorious and rugged coastline that can be a wonderful place to swim and take the anual vacation. This state is the home of Ft Lewis where the “1 Corps Hq and ROTC Region Hq” is based. It is situated south of Seattle.
A trip further south takes us through Oregon where we spent a few days, as we could not find any Forts in this state, but we had a splendid time with some lovely hospitable people, Joe and Carrie who were good enough to give some advice on what we should do. So we headed further south on the Interstate 5 and found ourselves in California home of the entertainment and surfing and a temperature that brings out the best in people all year round. But on the otherside of the coin, earthquakes are everyones biggest dread and peoples say that California may experience a very bad one one of these days, but we hope that day will be a long way off. Fort Hunter Legget, Fort MacArthur and the National Training Centre of Fort Irwin all military forts can be visited here providing you have permission from the US Army.
Heading accross into neighbouring Arizona where you can visit the awesome site of the “Grand Canyon” a huge crater eroded away by the Colorado river, here you can hike, bike or camp but whatever you do you will have a treasured memory to comw away with. The famous town of Flagstaff can be visited while your in Arizona, but maksure on any of your visits around this magnificent state you take plenty of water as it gets very very hot. Fort Huachuca ( home of Us Army Intelligence) and Fort Tuthill ( formed as a National Guard Summer Camp and now operated by Luke Air Force Base) can be places of interest while passing through.
Texas and New Mexico
Through the dry lands of New Mexico we arrive in the Lone Star state of “Texas” where we meet up with Tony and Dave who are quiet the world travellers. They decided to take us under their wing and show us the sites of Texas, first on the list was to sample the great steaks this part of the world has to offer so we end up in the Longhorn restaurant in Killeen a must while in that part of the world. Here we visited the biggest army base in the United States “Fort Hood” home to the 4th InfantryDivision, the 1st Cavalry and the 111 Corps. We also visited the Military Rings shop on base and the Family Crest Store run by Family Roots. Fort Sam Houston, Fort Bliss is also in this very large state and well wort a visit. Dont leave without taking yourself off to San Antonio to visit the Alamo and enter a world of unbeleivable history.
Leaving Texas, I have this strange feeling I will return ( lets see), we rented a car and set off on the Interstate 35 North to Oklahoma where we were told that a Fort was also set up here. Fort Sill near Lawton which is home to (US Army Field Artillery Center) and also operates a recreation area all year round. Oklahoma City has a fine zoo and you can also see buffalo and other wild life roam around the country side. The Cowboy and Heritage Museaum will give you a taste of what life was like in the old west and maybe pick up a valuable collectible.
Further North in Kansas we headed to Kansas City where we stay for a while, cities are not my thing so I head out into the country to experience the great prairies and see the wheat fields and other attractions that are on offer here. Fort Levanworth and Fort Riley are the two Forts in this state. Fort Levanworth is the home of the (US Disciplinary Barracks) and is better place to remain outside of.
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Wonderful stuff and so informative, wish I could have taken that journey with you.
Jake !!!