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Tuesday, September 30, 2008, Tom Doerr's house, Westminster, Maryland
We slept in today; no reason to get up early because the bike store didn't open until 10 am and they had at least another hour of work to do before they finished. So Tom brought out the bagels, eggs, and ham, and I got a couple more boxes of Lucky Charms and we all had a great big breakfast before we headed out to town. The rest went to the library while I went to the bike shop to see the status of the bike. They had opened up late and were working on it when I came. I decided to use the time to tune up the other bikes. Johnny's front tire had three broken spokes he never told me about. Finally they finished the bike after about 4 hours of labor. They only charged me $100 labor but with the cost of the part and yesterday's labor, the total was over $300. We better get to Maine quickly. Well, by now it was already past 2:00, too late to get many miles in, so we decided to spend another day. Tom told us before we left that we could spend another day with him if we needed to. So we pedaled over to his house and told him, then went to Gettysburg to see the famous historic site. The museum was big and interesting and took longer than we expected to go through. We didn't see everything because it closed after a couple hours, 6:00 pm, so we went to see the actual battlefield before it got dark. It was well preserved in the way it must have looked in the 1860s. The battlefield covered an area of 10 square miles, so it took a long time to see everything. We didn't see it all because the sun went down, but it was interesting. We did see the sight were Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg address: "Four score and seven years ago...." We got back to the house late around 9:30 because we went to the store first for tomorrows snacks. Hopefully, we will have a good day of riding tomorrow and be able to arrive in Philadelphia in two days.