Our night in the shelter (9/8/11)
What an eventful week! When we created the blog post from yesterday, we mentioned that it had been raining for four days and the radio was predicting road closures. They were right! We are currently sitting out the crazy flooding from the comfort of a Red Cross Shelter at First Baptist Church in Milton, Penn....
Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon (9/7/11)
We went a little out of our way to hop on a Rails Trail in Pennsylvania—and it’s been well worth it! Beautiful scenery and no traffic have highlighted this stone dust trail through the “Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania.” This trail follows the Pine Valley Creek, which is in a huge forested gorge in the north-central...
A night with the Hinterkopfs
On Sunday morning we got a slow start from our rest area campsite just north of Delevan, NY. It should have been an early start, really, since I woke up at about 4:30 to the sounds of an incoming storm and insisted we get up and pack up the tent before the downpour. We loaded...
Our first official destination! (9/2/11)
We have spent the past four days riding along the historic Erie Canal across the state of New York. This morning we woke up in a campground near our first official destination—Niagara Falls! We rode to the Falls around 11. Our campground had advertised that it was only six miles from the Falls, which was...
Our first week
We survived our first whole week on the road! I’m going to give a brief summary here, but let me start by saying that right now (Sunday night) we are in a motel in Herkimer, NY, sitting out the rain and wind from Hurricane (now Tropical Storm) Irene. We kept hearing about it all week,...
Here we are at last…
Here we are at last… the World Tour begins. Our train left the station in Atlanta about 30 minutes ago*, and only a few tears were shed (all mine) as we waved our final farewells. We’re headed north to begin pedaling in just a couple of days. My aunt gave me a book at our...
