Boomer 'n Shannon - Cruise'n the Country

We made two road trips back and forth down to McKinney, TX to meet and learn about the CProfit franchise and then again for training in August and September of 2010.  Along the way, we stopped at the St Louis Arch, Fort Smith, George Rogers Clark NM, George Washington Carver NM, Oklahoma City Bombing NM, and Hot Springs National Park.  We've combined the pictures from the trip together.   Jefferson National Expansion aka St Louis Arch aka Gateway Arch   Impressive every time I see it!   A view from the top The stairs up to the top of the arch. Quite an interesting hand rail. Take off our sunglasses, Shannon says, So we can squint?  I say??? Much Better!  Look at those smiles! We are dwarfed against the arch.  We are not even as tall as one "small" section of the arch. Our first Kum & Go encounter was not as fun as one would think.  It seemed much more like the oldest profession in that that they took our money. Fort Smi

We headed off toward Somerset/Shanksville, PA from our family cabin near Fryburg, PA to find the Flight 93 Memorial site.  It is a 2.5hr ride.  It was not clearly marked and all we had to find it was based on google searches of the area.  We are posting this in 2015 to highlight our trip on 7/5/10.  9/11/11 marked the 10 year anniversary of the tragic day and they built a more formal memorial in this place.  These are picture of the "memorial" in it's original state as it stood for the first 9 years.  It was extremely moving.  We have not been back since they have put in the "final memorial"; however, we will always remember this place this way.  If you look close, you will see a US Flag that identifies where the Flight 93 heroes and victims made impact and are eternally buried out on the hill.  The field is off limits out of respect for the deceased.  The only people who are allowed in this area are the family members.  A new memorial will be built bef