Photos (Hermys BMW dealers, Farm in Amish Country, and Me at Gettysburg)
GRRRRR i did it again !!! typed this massive big long essay and deleted it for the 2nd time !! how stupid am I!!
So lets try again! in Washington DC at the moment chilling and recoving my head from last night. Met up with Darren the South African dude from Philly again here at the hostel, and we recruited a few more and went on a pub crawl. It was a good laugh but got home and crawled into bed only to wake in the morning in my boxers in a dorm full of women.. pinched myslef, and no i wasnt dreaming it really was! seems the hostel made an error, was talking to the lovely Lin from South Korea who was apparantly supposed to be in my bed! The ticket numbers were the same. She saw my stuff in the bed so slept in the bunk below.. just as well or i could have had some screaming if i got in on top of her!!
So back to the pub crawl we had a laugh found this dodgy 80's bar with lots of people in Hawaian shirts and girls dressed as brides maids!! Still my slick dance moves went down great :D strange being drowned in a see of breasts.. .. or was i dreaming.. vodka and redbull, McCarthy i blame your influence!!
Washington itself is nice but its really a city of museums and govenrnment buildings! Someone should tell them they have a severe lack of restaurants! especially when one is starving after walking around all the monuments. Only realised someone had a christian theme in mind in planing the city, the lincon memorial, the needle, capital hill, the whitehouse, and the Jefferson Memorials all line up to form a giant cross.
So back to the last few days, following on from the mine adventure i went to followup on the ghostly hand, and true to form there it was on the wall of the cell in Jim Thorpe. The who story is here http://www.thecobrasnose.com/xxghost/handprint.html and the background to the Molly story mentioned earlier is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maguires . Apparantly the hand was placed by the ghost as a reminder of his innocence. There have been numerous reports of activity and spooky events in the place, event the tour guide claimed to have been scratched by something.
Chris who has been grea putting my up for a few days in Lehman, accompanied me down to Gettysburg the next day. But first i had to stop at Hermys BMW to get the handle bars tightened etc as there were coming loose as i did not thave the correct head to do the job when i unpacked the bike. The guys were cool, did the job for free and gave me a t-shirt after we were discussing the trip. So i have to recommend them if you are in the Port Clinton area.
After the pit stop we went to check out the Amish community around Lancaster. These guys are cool , they still live the same way they did in the 1800's in shirts and neck scarfs and straw hats, driving around in horse and carts. The women wear simple dresses and a bonnet. They are farmer folk, and dont drink alcohol, which I found out from the waitress when i went to order a beer. Still the food was all freshly grown and tasted wonderful.
Then it was onto Gettysburg to see the battle site and the momument to the Irish brigade who charged the confederates and were cut to pieces! Kind of an eriee place, and i swear i could hear bag pipes playing but couldnt see anyone anywhere!! haunted?
Lunch was a simple affair in a lively pub in the town, with the very original name of "the pub". Buffalo wings were a bit spicy (not quiet Harbour Master quality) bring back the IFSC!! We were drinking there later and were chatting to this vietnam vet, who also happend to be the chief of police and was of Irish descent, and in a strange twist of fate one of his great uncles was one of the Mollys hung in Jim Thorpe mentioned earlier.. strange or what? So got kicked out at closing with the chief!! a new experience that. As i was Irish and Catholic i was given a challenge coin for the police department, so i guess i have cart blance now to run riot in Gettysburg!! The history of the coins was in WWII so the airforce could prove they were not german spies to the French Resistance, it developed into a method to stop boasting, if you were spinning yarns in a bar and i challenged you to prove it with the coin and you couldnt, you looked a fool and had to buy me a drink :D
1 comment:
Your trip sounds great Kevin. I'm sorry you had a bad experience in DC especially with the food. If I had known I should have put you in touch with Denise and you certainly wouldn't have gone hungry -- what with all those restaurants ......... I'm surprised Kathleen didn't give you some advise in that area. Lets prepare better next time... So glad you are having a good time. Keep us posted ... Love, MFT
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