We began the final 186 miles of our trip today on the C&O Canal Towpath at its starting (or ending) point in Cumberland MA. Cumberland is also known for its trains which drive through your hotel all night but that's a different, sadder story. The C&O (Chesapeake & Ohio as it literally connected the Chesapeake … Continue reading D25 NE Canal Ways →

The divide on the east coast doesn't really "divide" the flow of water into separate oceans.The east side or the west side of the East Coast Continental divide both, eventually, drain into the Atlantic. And as noted last night, the height of the East Coast Continental Divide is not impressive at around 2300 feet. Our … Continue reading D24 NE Height Matters →

Breakfast this morning was hard to eat. I was a little sick looking around at the flabby old people in spandex. We're on the GAP and apparently so is everyone that ever wanted to ride the Tour de France. Unlike the tour, most of these folks (well, us too) are two or three times the … Continue reading D23 NE Lance Nots →

When we attended church in the Greentree ward, we made some new friends. They were very gracious in taking us by car around the city and seeing some of the sites. We had a great Sabbath in Pittsburgh.

We only had about 6 miles from the motel to the start of the Great Alleghany Passage (GAP) Trail but those 6 miles were through Pittsburgh, across two bridges, and unknown hills. It took me hours to plan the six mile route and 5 minutes to figure out the next 60 miles. It was urban … Continue reading D22 NE Best Last →

We are still loving Pennsylvania, but a little of that love was lost in our ride today. If you haven't ridden a bicycle on the street you won't appreciate the picture above. If you have, then you realize the shoulder is only wide enough for a tire and your handlebars are sticking out into traffic … Continue reading D20 NE Lost Love →

Up and down is often hard to tell with a picture. In this case, the little tiny twig shape on the horizon (not the trees), at the top of the hill, is Gloria. She couldn't go as slow as me and stay upright. When you're pedalling, and can't stop because you will fall over due … Continue reading D19 NE To Hill or Not →

To try and make up for our recent trip through the industrial revolution, I switched gears (figuratively and literally) and took Gloria through Napa Valley. Fortunately, this Napa is without the snobbery, Mercedes, and private jets. The northwest part of New York and the northeast part of Pennsylvania are known as wine country. I couldn't … Continue reading D18 NE Napa Valley →

Leaving Tonawanda we pedalled upstream along the Niagara River knowing it was best not to fall in as we would end up going over the falls downstream. Gloria looked longingly across the river into Canada. When we arrived a little later at the Unity Island Park - assumedly an island unifying Canada and US because … Continue reading D17 NE Industrial Revolution →

This trip has had some falls, or on this trip Gloria has had some falls. None of them were good. Today we changed that by taking her to Niagara Falls. She is smiling first, for not falling in our 50 mile ride today; second, because we took an Uber to the falls rather than riding … Continue reading D16 NE Good Falls →