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It´s our last night here before flying back to Holland. Sad enough, but well we had enough traveling experiences to make it last many many more months. I guess by christmas we´ll be planning again... but hey hitting the road is only half of the pleasure that is called a road trip.
Good what happened in the past couple of days... well Canada was cool. They drive just as crazy as in Holland so that was easy for me to get use too. Then we finally came to Niagra falls... and so were a few other people. I tell you there were at least 10.000 people there. So no parking anywhere close to the falls. Of course no way that you could get out of the car to even have a peak down... so guess what. We did drive past all this and drove right back into Amerika. Let me give you a little tip. Do NOT go to Niagra falls on memorialday weekend. Specially not on the sunday. And if the weather is any good for that day and you still have doubts if it would be busy... well just go and check it out for yourself. Just make
sure you go to the Canadian side so that you have to go to all the hussle because you cross the border.
After staying over one night in the state New York we drove down into Pennsylvania. Were we visited a cemetery that Deb put on the agenda since it was of her great grand parents. It was on a farmland somewhere. I tell you thank God for GPS, because we would never been able to find it on our own there. It was actually sad to see, because the cemetery that had graves in it that went back into the 1800 was not taken care of very well. Let´s just say not at all. We managed to get some pictures of the stones and there might be some more clues that can lead on to more history of the family.
And we have seen them in the wild and raw. The amish people. It´s really cool the see all that... NO we did not take pictures. I am sure that the people were not waiting for that. Never the less it was quite an experience to see it with your own eyes.
Our next day had
just a short trip, but one that was interesting aswell. We went to the crash site of flight 93. It´s right of highway 30 better known as the lincoln highway. The town is called Shanksville. A small town with 200 people in it. On one of the old minning fields is it were the plane came down. If you have a chance to go or are interested in it. Go now before they are going to make it like they are planning. They do want to make it into a big park and officially make it a national park. Now the area were the plane crashed is to be seen, from a distance, and the people that come there now do come there with the right reasons. To remember them and to get answers on questions they have.
For me it was a thing that i will remember for a long time. It also revealed to me that there is so much more to be learned and looked into, because it only did raise more questions to me. Never the less the people got killed and that there is place to remember them is wonderful and something they truely deserve.
the crash site of flight 93
Right after the American flag is were the plane made a crater in the ground. To make it even more an experience there was a choir from Michigan there that stopped just at the moment we were there. They came there to pay respect to the passengers of flight 93. They did sing a couple of songs there and asked the people to join in on the National hymn. Well my voice was not that good at that moment so i passed on that...
If it was up to me i would have gone into a local place in Shanksville and see if i could get in touch with some of the people there, but well there is not much to go there in Shanksville. Like i said it is just a town of 200 people. And well memorial day is not the right day to find an open shop there.
Good that was what happened in the past days. Today was a day of cleaning out the car and pack our suitecases. I did go out early this morning thinking it would be ok then. RIght... it was like 85 degrees here at 10.00 in the morning. So that was fun. It was a sweaty experience and that on the last vacationday here.
I wish you all a good night and till the next time here or anywhere else.
Be well and save,
greetings,
PaDe
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