Day 3: Friday, May 30, 2008 - I woke Ray up at 7:00am, I was already dressed and ready to go. It's been a long two days and Ray needed the extra sleep.
Ray had parked the bike next to two other bikes. When we went to load up before breakfast we met the owners of the bikes. Jim and Linda, they were headed back home, Allentown, PA. We told them we were heading in the direction ourselves. We chatted with them for a LONG time...exhanged business cards and we also gave them some bumper stickers. (always giving those out) We bid each other safe riding then headed in to have breakfast. There was Jim and Linda, having breakfast so we joined them and chatted some more.

we didn't get on the road until 9:30am, over an hour later than when we wanted to be on the road. We decided to stay on mostly back roads in the morning, came across a covered bridge, took some pics then headed for Shanksville, PA to the temporary Flight 93 memorial. It was humbling and very emotional to say the least. I took many pictures but am still not sure how to put smaller pics on here... just gigantic ones... sigh.... The most ironic thing there at the memorial was the transcripts from the black box. As we glanced over the conversation between the pilots and hijackers there was something that stood out to me, making me sick to my stomach. the hijackers said this is for Allah the greatest, the most merciful and the most compassionate!!! Imagine that, they were on a mission to kill THOUSANDS of people for a "merciful and compassionate" god. I was very proud looking at where the plane landed for the families of the brave men and women who, knowing they were going to die in moments, put their lives last so many more lives would be saved. One thing you didn't hear about in the news is that amoung the wreckage, they only found 18% of body parts but enough to get DNA to identify all 40 people on the flight, the largest piece of plane they found was 3' x 6'. But they found an untouched bible near the wreckage belonging to the youngest passenger, a 20 year old kid from Japan. There were also two additional bibles found, not completely untouched, but in good shape. Cool huh?

We rode through beautiful countryside and arrived in Richlandtown, PA at Ray's Uncle George and Aunt Mary's. We ate dinner, visited for a short time, then off to bed! Once again we were exhausted.!