1. What sounded like an Amish carriage and horse trotting down the street - up for work early?
2. An unbelievably loud American railroad horn or whistle - apparently each class of engine has it's own whistle and each engineer has his own way of tooting it. Well, this one certainly liked tooting it - many times. Sounded like a Union Seven Spot Whistle to me. Believe it or not you can check it out on You Tube at Museum of the American Train Whistles! After two loudish multiple bursts of sound, which sounded like it was coming through the bedroom, it faded into the distance still tooting.
3. The refuse lorry collecting the weekly rubbish - they must also start work very early as this was 4:30.
Oh well, we'd put ourselves down for an earlyish breakfast this morning anyway, so no need for an alarm!
Breakfast was an interesting mix, both in terms of food and fellow diners. We had a busy day planned and it wasn't long before we were on our way.
The host had given us a back roads tour map for the Amish farms, with recommendations on where to stop for the best quilts, Shoofly Pies, Handmade soaps, other crafts and the best soft pretzels in the world. We managed to get around the circuit without making any purchases. We didn't take any more photographs as it made us feel a little uncomfortable, a bit like seeing these people in a kind of "zoo"
The road to Gettysburg crossed the Susquehanna River. This was such a lovely name that we just had to stop and take some pictures.
We weren't sure how to manage the tour of Gettysburg battlefields but an initial visit to the Visitor Centre and Museum proved to be very beneficial. A volunteer ranger advised us that a self guided motor tour would probably be best for us and provided an annotated map. He also recommended watching an introductory film narrated by Morgan Freeman; something called the Cyclorama and then the museum. This we duly did.
The film proved anything but boring, which was our initial expectation.
The Cyclorama turned out to be a 360 degree view of a 130 year painting that was 40ft high and about 370ft long. It was an amazing depiction of the battlefield scenes that played out over three days in July 1863.
It is difficult to appreciate from the photos how they have managed to merge the painting and the matching physical artefacts.
In the photograph above the detail in the foreground are real items of palisade and rock.
The museum had a number of artefacts, including this 'operating table'
Touring the the rest of the battlefield sites was similarly impressive with monuments scattered over many acres of well preserved countryside.
Lincoln didn't actually deliver the Gettysburg Address from this spot, but close by. This is a memorial to that.
The battlefield itself covers an immense area and the tour is a 24 mile drive, shown in red above.
The landscapes were beautiful in places.
Site of the first battle.
We broke up the tour by booking in to our nights lodgings.
It was in a house that we learned later we had seen in the film of the civil war battles. It even has bullet holes in the wall, but we are assured they have stopped shooting now. 
Eric checks out the result of gunfire back in July 1863!
Site of the last battle.
Followed by a walk around historic Gettysburg itself on the way to dinner. Washington DC tomorrow.