A frustrating couple of hours!

We are in a Super 8 Motel in Seville, OH, just west of Akron. We did not arrive until after 10pm. The problem was that (1) we needed to eat, so that I cou;d take some pills. But there were no plazas on the PA turnpike. Finally, we reached Ohio and immmediately there was a plaza with a Panera food bar. It had just what we needed, but it took longer than we expected to get the food and eat it. So by the time we were back on the road, it was almost dark and we were still an hour and a half from our motel! Then the exit onto Rte 224 wasn't where the atlas said it would be, we went out of our way, and then Rte 224 turned into I-76, which the atlas gave NO indication of. I couldn't use the phone GPS because the phone battery was dead and the charger wasn't working in the car. Ellen's phone was also almost dead - down to 10%. So we were sort of flying blind. But it all worked out and we are here. I'll post a fuller report on the day with some photos later. LATER: The Hampton Inn where we stayed in Media had a good, full breakfast, and we took full advantage of it. But by the time we got back on the road, it must have been close to 11 a.m. We drove through Media and Ellen pointed out places familiar to her from when she lived there with Julie and Paul when they were kids. It took a while to get on to the PA Turnpike and that was our route west to Ohio. But we decided to vary that a bit and took Rte. 30 for about 80 miles, rejoining the PTpk at Pittsburg. Rte. 30 took us past Shawnee State Park, where we stopped and had a picnic lunch out of our food box, and also took us by the Flight 93 Memorial, commemorating the forty passengers and crew that crashed there on September 11, 2001. We drove through the grounds, which are quite extensive, but stopped only a few minutes to allow Ellen to get cards at the Visitors Centre. It felt appropriate and sombre, not vengeful and "political," as it could have been.

The Hampton Inn and Suites in Media, PA.

The school Julie and Paul went to in Media.

Downtown Media.

The trams are sill running in Media!

Shawnee State Park Picnic.

The "Tower of Voices" at the Flight 93 memorial: containing 40 wind chimes.

The "Wall of names" - all those who died on 9/11 - in NYC, D.C. and here in PA.