Endless Circles

I coughed all night last night so didn't sleep well.  We had breakfast and packed up everything and set out to Shanksville to see the Flight 93 Memorial.  We were doing well until Bitchin Betty told us to get off at this exit and it went downhill after that.  We did eventually find it but it took us 2 hours to essentially go 43 miles from where we spent the night!  I have to say I was glad we went as it is a very emotional but beautiful and peaceful place as well.  I was surprised at the number of people who were there and it was a steady stream of people the entire time we were there.  The rock in the photo with the flowers is where the plane impacted and that area is reserved for family members only.  As you can see fall was happening in Pennsylvania today and it was beautiful..  All these photos were taken in and around the site.

After leaving there for numerous reasons it took us another 3 hours to go 150 miles and the weather was windy, colder and rained off and on.  We thought we were going to be stuck in Pennsylvania forever as it seemed we would never get out. It was the most beautiful state with gorgeous farms and the changing trees in the Allegheny Mountains.  We got off to get gas and again Betty sent us on a route that took us way out of the way.  We obviously were supposed to see these things because we saw a sign for a "Florist/Dog Grooming Service", then a sign for "Fresh Tomato/Bait Shop", the some strange animal we think was a Punxsutawney Phil sitting on the side of the road, then a dance studio with a ballerina painted on the side of the barn which housed the studio then we went through a place called "Normalville".  Really?  Then we saw some cute spiders made out of bigs rolls of hay but we passed them so fast I didn't get a picture and we were determined to press on.  Once we got into Ohio it was flat and uncolorful but did see what appeared to be a llama or alpaca just standing on the side of I-71..we think he was lost.  We changed our reservations for the night from Indiana and stopped in Cincinnati because at that point we had been in the car for 11 hours and would have had another 160 miles to go to where we intended to stop. This hotel is actually in Hebron, Kentucky but we are near the Cincinnati airport..go figure.  We passed the Reds stadium and the game was just letting out Carol..I have no idea who they played.  We checked in and ordered wings and Debbie is zoning after driving all day and I am going to finish this and get to bed too.  We are going to be back at her house tomorrow.