Sat. 9/29/07 ~ Gettysburg National Military Park

We left Cherry Hill Park at 8:30 AM headed towards the Gettysburg National Military Park. When we got to Emmetsburg, MD we saw a sign about the National Firefighter Academy and Fallen Firefighter Memorial. We pulled off and saw the memorial and noticed they were doing some sort of installation across the campus. We walked over to where a huge sculpture of the 3 firefighters raising the flag after the Sept 11 attacks. We stood and watched them work for a little while and then continued on our way. We arrived at the Visitors’ Center for the Gettysburg National Military Park about 11:30 AM. We got a map for the self-guided automobile tour and after a visit to the cemetery and the site where President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address we started our tour. The map contains information about each stop on the auto tour and there are roadside markers all along the way. The entire route is only 18 miles but easily takes 2 hours to complete. We left Gettysburg and continued on to Lancaster County in the heart of the Amish country. For the first time on this trip we had trouble finding a campground that had space available. After calling several campground without any luck we finally got the last available spot the Beacon Hill Campground in Intercourse, PA We are camped among Amish farms and the front window of the motor home looks across the street at an Amish farm where a young man was plowing with a pair of horses. We saw numerous horse-drawn buggies clip-clopping down the roads around us. While I worked on this journal and our online blog, Bill watched the USC game.