MONDAY!  Greetings from Pencil-vein-ya!  It was a long day, but a worthwhile day (considering it's Monday and there's no Monday Night Football).  We woke this morning in Richmond, Virginia, the skies had cleared and we hit it out of town before the motel folks figured out that our check wasn't gonna clear.  That'll teach them not to take out of town cash!

So guess where we went today?  Go on, guess!  Okay, we'll tell you - the Monticello - Jefferson's house!  Let's take a moment and reflect on Thomas Jefferson.  Let's see, he was governor of his state, he was elected president, he had sex with his employees and his wife became Secretary of State!  Wait, wrong president! - Jefferson's wife was never Secretary of State.  The tour of the Monticello costs $20 bucks a person, but if you're a cheap bastard (or on a budget set by a beer company like Budweiser - the Riding4Beer Magical Mystery Tour sponsor!) you can just look at the back of a nickel.

Anyway, after touring his house (built by slaves - so much for life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness) we hit the road hard to the north.  Our goal was to be across the Mason-Dixon line by dusk and safely under the protection of the Union Army for the first time in over four weeks.  We made it and now we're resting in the Super 8 motel (discounted rooms for bikers!) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  Folks, this is where it all happened - this is the granddaddy of all battlefields.  Tomorrow we're gonna tour around where all the guys with the big guns shot up the place - and you know what they say about guys with big guns...

      
            Just like the back of a nickel - only bigger!                                       Imagine this - Jefferson had a beer cellar!

      
Imagine owning your own cemetery - We only own a trailer!                 The Potomac River - We're in the North, BABY!