Daddy-Daughter Trip - Day 6

Today we woke up and had pop tarts. We got in the car and drove a short way to the United 93 Memorial. It was cold and windy there. It was a very interesting place - people left things to remember their friends and family, who sacrificed their lives. There isn't a visitors center yet, but there was a nice man who told us what it was like on September 11th. He worked for the volunteer fire department and was there that day. He also knew the farmers up the hill from the crash site - he said they didn't even know what happened until the police and fire people arrived! Later, we got on US-40, which we learned is also called the National Road. We stopped for lunch at Pizza Hut. We played songs on the juke box while we had pizza and cheesy bread. After that, we went to Fort Necessity, where George Washington had his first battle (which he lost). We saw a demonstration of guns shooting and took a tour of an old tavern. The museum told us about how people used to take the National Road from the East Coast all the way to Illinois. After a few hours there, we got back on the National Road and kept driving until we were in West Virginia [I-70]. It took weeks to drive this way for the pioneers and we did it in a few hours! Along the way, we went through Columbus and Indianapolis. We crossed the Ohio River and saw lots of pretty buildings. We stopped for the night in Terre Haute, Indiana, and went to bed.