Boomer 'n Shannon - Cruise'n the Country

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...

In all the years our family visited our cabin near Fryburg, PA we have never ventured over to check out Gettysburg.  Mom, Dad, Ryan and I did a joint/overlapping vacation over the July 4th weekend.  They joined us for this park. Ryan caught up with his buddy Abe They had a real neat "re-enactment" based on a painting on the ceiling.  There were various segments of the Battle of Gettysburg painted on the ceiling and as they discussed different aspects of the war they lit up those areas.  The following are a few photos of those parts.  1  2 3 4 5 6 7   Johnstown Flood Pictures seem to have disappeared.  Did not have the photo storage options as we do today.  Will add if we run across them.  We've shared that story a few times.  The flood is not well known history to most today; however, it was the biggest news since the assassination of President Lincoln in...