Monday July 7: Packing up the car
In Spencer: Ready to start the ride
Along the Susquehanna on Sheshequin Rd, between Athens and Towanda
Lucas resting his legs, somewhere on Rt 414
Leroy cemetery: rest break
Dinner at Canton PA, day 1: Lucas gets hot wings
Bike Route J sign in downtown Canton
Day 2: Covered panniers after the rain let up
Stop in Roaring Branch, on Rt 14
Looking back north in Roaring Branch, on Rt 14
Video: Lucas riding on Rt 14 near Ralston
Road flattens out around Ralston, Rt 14
End of our time on Rt 14, Trout Run
Paved bike path from Hepburnville to Williamsport
Lunch at Hellers, Williamsport, just off the bike path
Downtown Williamsport
River Road, after Montgomery
In our hotel room in Lewisburg
Day 3: in the parking lot at the trailhead in downtown York
Lisa had driven us the 90 miles from Lewisburg to York
Day 3: Starting off on the York trail
On the bike trail out of York
Rest stop on the bike trail
At the high point -- 818 ft -- of the York trail, New Freedom. Lunch stop
At the Maryland - Pennsylvania border
The trail on the Maryland side of the border
Monkton, where we got off the trail
Rest break along Rt 1 headed to Perryville
Rt 1 Bridge over the Susquehanna: no shoulder, though it's listed as bike route
Susquehanna River south of the bridge (which is also a hydroelectric dam)
Looking back down the road towards Port Deposit on the Susquehanna
Wild raspberries!
Our hotel at Perryville MD
Day 4: Breakfast
Our first view of the Chesapeake Bay, at Charlestown
Bridge over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, looking back
Rest break in Augustine MD
Entering Delaware on Bohemia Mill Rd
My map case, with cue sheet
Delaware Bike Route 1 sign
Marked bikeway in Delaware
Day 5: headed out of Dover
Rest stop
Killens Pond
Lucas's photo: Delaware
Lunch break
That's Lucas way ahead of me, on Rt 1 along the shore
At Delaware Seashore State Park - Lucas and gameboy
Sunset down on the Indian River inlet, near our campsite
The Atlantic Ocean
Looking towards the campground
Day 6: breaking camp
Lucas's new aerobars, just installed at Bethany Beach bike shop
At internet cafe Java Surf in Bethany Beach
Entering Maryland
On the Rt 50 bridge out of Ocean City, MD
Bamboo grove on Rt 113 south of Berlin
map case unfolded
Entering Virginia south of Stockton
Lucas's official Maryland photo
Marshes on our way across to Chincoteague: Lucas's official Virginia photo
Our campsite at Chincoteague
Day 7: Daybreak at Pine Grove Campground, Chincoteague
Pine Grove Campground, Chincoteague
Rain hits just after Melfa
Day 8: Riding on Seaside Rd south of Exmore
Approaching the toll booths of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel at Kiptopeke, end of the ride
Lucas at the finish (photo by Lisa)
Chip finishing up
Driving across the bridge
In one of the tunnels
At the stop on the bridge
In Norfolk!
