Just spent a week exploring the Northeast. Rode from Rhode Island to West Virginia, back thru the mountains of Pennsylvania, across the Catskills and the back
roads of Connecticut. It has been a long time since I spent a week wandering. (back injury kept me down for about 18 months)
Im happy to be writing a little blurb here. I did a lousy job of taking pictures, or writing down the whole loop, but I visited the lovely town of Harpers Ferry West Virginia, and it was beautiful. Its is at the junction of the Potomac and the Shenendoah rivers, and is absoultely beautiful. The whole town is a National Park, and it is as it was a hundred years ago.
I crossed PA thru coal-mining country on some great back roads. One of them was route 209. This was a neat road thru some gritty coal towns, passing by the oldest brewery in America, "Yuengling" is the beer, as Im sure many of you know. Its nice beer, and the brewery is very small and quaint, in an old brick building just off the center of town.
I stayed in a wierd but cute little town named "Jim Thorpe"..apparantely his eccentric wife kept his body on ice until she found a town willing to
name itself after him..or something like that.. and they did. So its a nice little victorian town with a wierd name, and a nice Inn "The Inn at Jim Thorpe"
Expensive, but very nice. The restaraunt attached is quite good at cooking steaks too!
I meandered up thru the Poconos and then across the Catskill mountains, and then across CT compeletely on back roads. It was lovely. CT has some really nice hills and the towns are gorgeous. I went due east from Poughkeepsie on 44, and then kep going west on all teh small roads (55, 7, 109, 47 etc etc). It was great. We slept under the stars in my new tent, (old one died, replaced it with a spiffy REI lightweight Half Dome), ate and drank and
made merry all week.
I spent some time with old friends, introduced my new girl to long distance motorcycle riding / camping, and had a blast doing it.
At the end of it all we rode about 2300 miles, managed to actually come back for 2 days, go to work, do laundry, and get back out onto the road and ride back to the Poconos for another night camping.
If you have not explored PA, W Va and NY, I highly recommend it!
Burn rubber!
-Ken
Im happy to be writing a little blurb here. I did a lousy job of taking pictures, or writing down the whole loop, but I visited the lovely town of Harpers Ferry West Virginia, and it was beautiful. Its is at the junction of the Potomac and the Shenendoah rivers, and is absoultely beautiful. The whole town is a National Park, and it is as it was a hundred years ago.
I crossed PA thru coal-mining country on some great back roads. One of them was route 209. This was a neat road thru some gritty coal towns, passing by the oldest brewery in America, "Yuengling" is the beer, as Im sure many of you know. Its nice beer, and the brewery is very small and quaint, in an old brick building just off the center of town.
I stayed in a wierd but cute little town named "Jim Thorpe"..apparantely his eccentric wife kept his body on ice until she found a town willing to
name itself after him..or something like that.. and they did. So its a nice little victorian town with a wierd name, and a nice Inn "The Inn at Jim Thorpe"
Expensive, but very nice. The restaraunt attached is quite good at cooking steaks too!
I meandered up thru the Poconos and then across the Catskill mountains, and then across CT compeletely on back roads. It was lovely. CT has some really nice hills and the towns are gorgeous. I went due east from Poughkeepsie on 44, and then kep going west on all teh small roads (55, 7, 109, 47 etc etc). It was great. We slept under the stars in my new tent, (old one died, replaced it with a spiffy REI lightweight Half Dome), ate and drank and
made merry all week.
I spent some time with old friends, introduced my new girl to long distance motorcycle riding / camping, and had a blast doing it.
At the end of it all we rode about 2300 miles, managed to actually come back for 2 days, go to work, do laundry, and get back out onto the road and ride back to the Poconos for another night camping.
If you have not explored PA, W Va and NY, I highly recommend it!
Burn rubber!
-Ken
