Day 17 Tuesday May 25, 2010 Distance 103.63 km. Time 5 hrs. 56 min. Total so far 1126.80 km. After a prayer, we said our goodbyes to Tony and Laura. One of the roads in the morning was all huge Amish farms and on the road we dodged the horse droppings. We saw three buggies driven by ladies. We stopped for our breakfast bars in the town park of West Farmington. It consists of one picnic table. At the end of one road a truck driver commented to me on how well marked we are. He said the Amish buggies should have the small safety triangles which mark vehicles moving at a slow speed. We had lunch at the gazebo in the middle of the roundabout in Mecca. Andover was our last town in Ohio and we had a break from the heat under a pavilion by the church. It was 85 degrees again today. Hwy 6 took us across the Pymatuning Reservoir into Pennsylvania. It used to be the largest Reservoir in the USA until they built the Hoover dam. We met a motorcycle couple half way across and suggested we trade vehicles and he said it would have to be yellow. I told him my bike was very yellow but he wouldn't go for it. The first town in our new state was Espyville and we were disappointed there after our long day as the sign said camping and we rode one mile out of the way and found it closed due to lack of funds. Then it was a long mile back. The marina wouldn't let us stay there at some unused picnic tables so we landed up going 7 miles farther to the state park in Linesville. Mary Ann was not a happy camper and biker for the last couple of hours! Dave told the story to the park ranger. We had showers, managed one blog and fell asleep.
No comments:
Post a Comment