Made it to the American D-Day Cemetery

Took the train to Bayeux yesterday, it is the closest town to the American D-Day Cemetery.  I walked in the pouring rain from the train station to the center of town to try to find a place to stay.  Found a nice looking B&B and the guy showed me a room.  I made the mistake of asking him, "Do you have heat? I was freezing from being in the rain.  He said his place was a 4 star B&B (yea maybe in Cambodia) and that he was insulted by my comment...so I was back in the rain.  I found another place with a real nice lady and stayed there.  They have a D-day museum in Bayeux and I went there.  There were 3 of us in the whole place, a couple from Michigan and me.  The girl working the desk said she would play the english d-day movie just for me.  I was the only one in the theater.  They had some cool stuff there, mostly guns.  Went to a pub and had some beers and a pizza.

WoW, had an interesting day today.  Somehow I managed the buses and got to Omaha Beach and the American D-Day Cemetery which is about 30mins from town.  This whole area is very rural and its not easy to get around.  Could've rented a car but I'm on a budget.  The Cemetery makes you speechless there are about 8,000 crosses lined up in a perfectly maintained area.  I'm pretty sure that the USA actually owns the area of land at the cemetery.  This is the off season and there are only a few people around.  I walked on Omaha beach and was the only one on the beach. 

I found out where our uncle Victor Washabaugh is buried but it is over 2 hours away at another American Cemetery.  I had a ticket to Paris for tonight but I changed it and I'm going to go find him.  I told the staff about him and they called to his Cemetery and the people there said that if I came by train that they would send someone to the train station to pick me up.  I have to get the train at 7:45am. 

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