Category: Pennsylvania trips
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Pittsburgh, city of steep hills; September 16-20, 2015
I really wanted to cycle again in Pittsburgh, and taking the airplane was too complicated. On a Wednesday, I drove the Honda 400 miles up to Morgantown, West Virginia. At just before four in the afternoon, I parked next to the Caperton Trail along the Monongahela River, pulled the Surley Long Haul Trucker out of…
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To York PA via the Northern Central Railroad trail 9/14-15/2014
This trip was a one nighter. I had repeatedly seen the Northern Central Railroad bike path on the map when I was looking for interesting places to bike ride. I had avoided it because I had found rail trails to be sometimes boring, less interesting than riding on a conventional road. This particular…
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Across the New Jersey Pine Barrens: Atlantic City to Philadelphia May 12, 2014
There is a Sopranos episode where the city boys coming to the Jersey Pine Barrens find out that doing a mob hit in the wilderness can get much more complicated than expected. This area of south central New Jersey really does sometimes feel like a wilderness, although in places it is as close as thirty…
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City Bike Trip: Philadelphia PA to Princeton NJ, May 13, 2014
I had been really worried the days leading up to this ride. Philadelphia has forty thousand abandoned buildings. I had thought the first fifteen miles of this trip through North Philadelphia would be through dangerous slums; boarded up houses with white tee shirted young men lingering on the corners. The Wire. I did…
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