Lunch and Snack visit Eastern U.S. ~ August, 2010.

"We're on the East Coast Snack! On the road again! Where are we off to first?"

First stop is Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. It was a strategic point in the Civil War. Half the town is now a national historic park administered by the National Park Service.

The cows take a look at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church above the town of Harpers Ferry. It was considered neutral territory during the Civil War and escaped the war unscathed.

Lunch and Snack stop along the shores of the Shenandoah River near its confluence with the Potomac.

"It would be a nice place to wade on a hot day, huh Snack?"

The cows take a tour of the Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland. It was the site of the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War.

"Gosh Lunch, it sure looks like a really nice place to graze! You'd never know that thousands of people were killed in battle here in 1862."

Lunch and Snack pause near the New Jersey State Monument near the "Bloody Cornfield" at Antietam - the site of the most intense fighting on Sept. 17, 1862.

"Where are we now, Snack?"

"This is the Burnside Bridge where 500 Confederate soldiers held the hillside until the Union's Gen. Ambrose Burnside finally prevailed."

"Ahhh! This is much happier than a battlefield."

The cows make their way to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, straddling the border of Tennessee and North Carolina.

Lunch and Snack take a look at Pigeon Creek on the east side of Great Smoky Mountains.

"Can we take a dip here, Lunch????"

"Wow, Snack! We're in Dollywood! Do you think we'll get to meet Dolly?"

Lunch and Snack venture to Pigeon Forge, Tenn. - home of the iconic amusement park.

The cows stop to cool off next to a waterwheel in the center of Dollywood, a visual trademark of the park.

Lunch and Snack sit back to watch the play "Sha-Kon-O-Hey" about the creation of the nearby Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The show is a featured entertainment attraction at Dollywood.

"Can we get a ticket, Lunch?"

It's the "Dollywood Express," an authentic coal-fired steam engine that ventures into the Great Smoky foothills.

"Why, it's Miss Lillian! She runs Miss Lillian's Chicken House at Dollywood!"

"Lunch, do you think she likes chicken?"

"Hmmm. Do you think there's something wrong here, Snack?"

The cows examine the building housing Wonderworks, an interactive exhibit to introduce science to children in Pigeon Forge.

The cows head back to Great Smoky park on their way back northeast and see why the park often lives up to its name.

Lunch and Snack perch on the sign dividing the park between Tennessee and North Carolina.

The cows travel the Blue Ridge Parkway - a 469-mile scenic byway that traverses the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina and Virginia.

"What in the world is this, Lunch?"

"It's the bottom of the Linn Cove Viaduct, an engineering marvel on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It takes traffic up and over the boulder field on Grandfather Mountain. It's considered one of the most complicated concrete bridges ever made!"

"Cool!"

"This sure is scenic, Snack."

A barn along the parkway reminds the cows of pastoral times.

Lunch and Snack do a bit of direction finding from the Ravens Roost Overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway above the lush Shenandoah Valley.

The cows drop in at the Humpback Rocks Visitor Center at the north end of the parkway. The center, which includes a reconstructed period farm, hosted the bluegrass band Blue Mountain Sunrise on the day of the cows' visit.

The cows meet a chicken on the grounds of the visitor center.

"Lunch? What does 'cluck' mean?"

"Gosh, Snack. People really lived in cabins like this along the parkway."

Snack was eager to learn how to sew quilts, but Lunch, not so much.

Next stop, Shenandoah National Park in northern Virginia. Like the Blue Ridge Parkway, the main road through the park follows the ridge line high above the surrounding valleys.

After a long trip through the mountains, Lunch and Snack make their way to Baltimore, pausing at one of the fountains in the downtown area.

The Amtrak Northeast Regional train arrives at Baltimore's Penn Station to whisk the cows off to big city adventures in Philadelphia and New York!