The Founders

Just got back from a vacation to Virginia. Highly recommend hiking up to Mary's Rock in the Shenandoah National Park and tubing down the Shenandoah river and Jamestown, Yorktown, and Williamsburg are all cool...just wait till your kids are grown to go...you'll enjoy it more.

Big takeaway...man is man. Our founders, although great men, weren't much different from great men today. They all had their issues, went to others for help, argued about the details...Jefferson had this need to impress that left him heavily in debt, Washington needed help and advice from the French in Yorktown, Jamestown (our first settlement) was a disaster, the Gentry class (those running the show) were a useless lot...

Don't get me wrong, our country's history is facinating, and I think collectively these guys all accomplished a ton, learned from their mistakes, and were great men. It was just nice to see the "normalcy" in them. It gives me great hope for our society and our culture.