Making History -or does history make us….

This has been such an amazing trip from a historic standpoint. I’ve learned things I never knew before. We stopped the other day in the middle of Philadelphia to show the kids where history was made (like they cared…but we really did try to help them get it!) We showed them first of all the liberty bell.

Did you know that it was the bell that used to ring from the top of the Independence Hal l where both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were signed?(back when it was a ringing kind of bell) Well, you might have known that, but did you know that the name "Liberty Bell" wasn’t given to the bell until it was already famous - that was the name applied by the abolitionists who used it as a symbol in the quest for true "liberty and justice for all". The other thing about this Liberty Bell that I thought odd is that it now rests across the street from the hall in a house where President George Washington used to house his slaves.

Today I crossed the Delaware River into New Jersey which is the famous river George Washington crossed when going to fight the British and the Hessian armies in Trenton and Princeton in 1776/77 which was the tipping point in galvanizing the colonial Americans to dig in and the allies to come to their aid to win the Revolution.

We are standing here where history turned!

Today as I was running down the road just after crossing the Delaware into new jersey (I had to hop into the car to cross the bridge) we pulled over to find that we were being followed. I tried to get out to run, but the shoulder of the road disappeared so I hopped back in and went a bit further down the road. This mysterious white car trailed us and pulled off when we did too. It turns out that he was a photographer with the newspapers and news stations who thought what we were doing was awesome. He called out news people and helped us get some good press.

After experiencing our own successes here, I’m thinking that General Washington must have felt on top of the world to see the cause of freedom moving forward after so much sacrifice.