Day 19 - A Day of Remembrance

Up early this morning and on the road but this time for shorter trips around the Pittsburgh area.  Juli's (hub's niece) husband Steve and Juli's son Robert took us on a tour of a couple of great sites outside Pittsburgh - first we were off to the Quecreek (Somerset County) mine disaster which occured on July 24, 2002 (to 27th). Nine men were trapped for 77 hours, fortunately all of them made it safely  out.

Then we made a trip to the site where on September 11, 2001 a flight was hi-jacked and crashed in Pennsylvania.  Most of you know that this occured on the same day that the World Trade Center was attacked as well as Washington DC. What a humbling experience it was to pass through these grounds.  Even today almost 12 and 13 years later I get chills just thinking about how many people were affected by these tragic events.

After spending the morning visiting these sites we came back to Juli's picked up our stuff and then the 4 of us and Steve's son, Matthew who joined us for lunch at Bob Evans....oh how I would love to have these restaurants in Arizona.

Back on the road again by 1:30pm we again forked up toll-road fees (so thankful there are none of these fees in Arizona) and hoped to head to Gettysburg...but alas we ran into much rain, some very heavy, and did not have the time to get there.  We pulled into Carlsyle for the night and hope to make it to Harrisburg by early afternoon tomorrow.  We're tired, grumpy and wet and hoping that a good nights sleep will cure these woes.

Friday we visit old work friends of Howard's from California.  And then onto Lancaster County PA on Saturday morning.....and then hoping to make it to our friends in VA later Saturday.