Category: Pennsylvania trips
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Eastern Pennsylvania with the guys, Oct 13 – 18, 2018
On this six day jaunt myself and two friends managed to visit Richmond, Baltimore, Lancaster and Philadelphia all in a six day bicycle trip. This trip put our relationship with our work life in focus. Careerwise the three of us have completely different work situations. Lyman, an architect, is proud to say he…
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West Virginia Panhandle to Pittsburgh, September 22-24, 2018
I loaded the Surly Long Haul Trucker bicycle in the back of our inherited 2005 Toyota Prius and started driving north and northwest from Chapel Hill at 6:45 AM. I had plotted that I could drive on Interstate highway all the way to Wheeling, West Virginia in about seven hours, mostly on I-77.…
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Scranton/Wilkes Barre PA to Binghamton NY, Sept. 15-18, 2017
This part of the country does not get many tourists. The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area was built around coal mining and offshoot heavy industries. The cities have been losing population for the last fifty years. I chose Wilkes-Barre specifically as a starting point because it is right on I-81 which comes up through Virginia. …
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Pennsylvania: Harrisburg to Philly, Oct 23-26, 2016
Geography students: there is a reason the Battle of Gettysburg happened where it did; if you were a Southerner and wanted to invade the North, Gettysburg would your go-to place, the soft underbelly of Yankeeland, only about ten miles north of the Pennsylvania border which is also called the Mason-Dixon Line. And only thirty-five…
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