I realize I didn’t get this trip blogged on here, was looking for it and found it was in my journal. I am going to try to cut and paste it onto here.
Dru, Susan, and I meet in Sunbury and took off about 9:15 and traveled, with only stopping at gas stations and snacking, rather then stopping for lunch. We got about 8 miles from Wellsboro and got hit by a down pour, we turned around and went in to a bar to dry off and suite up even though soaked already. Thought about eating there but decide to get to the Canyon motel.
We get to 362 and Susan's bike stalls, thinking it was out of gas Dru takes off to Wellsboro and is back before dark with gas. But because we were starting and restarting the battery died. Susan and I did get it going and moved further up the road. But stopped on a curved hill. I tryed to push her up and a guy stopped and pushed her the rest of the way,to a better stopping place. Well we wait for a tow but no one came, so I walk up a hill to a house and this guy came turned the bike around and jump started it. We make it into town in the dark and fog, turn a corner and it dies again. The Police was right there and drove Susan to the motel, we arrived at 9:00pm. For dinner we found a bar that feed us with the kitchen closing in 5 min from when we walked in. Wow what a day.
Dru, Susan, and I meet in Sunbury and took off about 9:15 and traveled, with only stopping at gas stations and snacking, rather then stopping for lunch. We got about 8 miles from Wellsboro and got hit by a down pour, we turned around and went in to a bar to dry off and suite up even though soaked already. Thought about eating there but decide to get to the Canyon motel.
We get to 362 and Susan's bike stalls, thinking it was out of gas Dru takes off to Wellsboro and is back before dark with gas. But because we were starting and restarting the battery died. Susan and I did get it going and moved further up the road. But stopped on a curved hill. I tryed to push her up and a guy stopped and pushed her the rest of the way,to a better stopping place. Well we wait for a tow but no one came, so I walk up a hill to a house and this guy came turned the bike around and jump started it. We make it into town in the dark and fog, turn a corner and it dies again. The Police was right there and drove Susan to the motel, we arrived at 9:00pm. For dinner we found a bar that feed us with the kitchen closing in 5 min from when we walked in. Wow what a day.
Aug. 21, 2014
Susan goes to check on her bike and it starts so she takes it to the shop, they replace the battery, once it got there from another town, easy fix, so we think. Dru and I go to see the Penn. grand canyon and then eat at a diner, cute little place in the middle of town while we wait on the fix.
Susan didn't want to go in case they called about her bike. We leave our motel at 12:45, planning on 168 miles til our next motel in Monticello, NY. We stop in Towanda for lunch at 1:45, and then back on the bikes. Get gas at rt. 92, it has ethanol in it, we go about 26 miles with 52 till Monticello and Susan's bike dies again. It is now 4:30 (so it took 2.5 hrs to travel 116 miles on Rt 6) not the best rd to travel.
Lots of trucks! So here we are stuck on 374 near Lenoxville, and a guy Jeff stops and to help the very nice guy, he has two children Robert and his twin sister, He works with the spark plugs and nothing happens in the meantime Susan calls AAA and they dispatch a tow truck. 3.5 hrs later we take off, Susan in the truck and Dru and I following. Wow, what a rough ride. Dark curvy roads, we see deer, lighting, and rain all close. Also at one point, there were two cars stopped and ppl on the side of the road, with another car coming to the other direction, they swerve to missed the ppl and almost hit me. Oh my goodness, I thought I was going to cry, I couldn't stop I had to just pull it together and keep following the truck. The tow truck takes the bike to a Harley shop in Honesdale, Pa.
We get to our hotel by 9:00 pm again, which is not normal at all. Awesome place we are staying at Hotel Wayne. Built-in 1837 cool old place. The bike is sitting at Baer Harley, hopefully, they will get it fixed tomorrow.
I jump in the shower while the other two go get a beer. We then ate next door at Paulies Coneies. Wow, that was good! I had a coney with slaw, chili, and honey mustard.
Susan goes to check on her bike and it starts so she takes it to the shop, they replace the battery, once it got there from another town, easy fix, so we think. Dru and I go to see the Penn. grand canyon and then eat at a diner, cute little place in the middle of town while we wait on the fix.
Susan didn't want to go in case they called about her bike. We leave our motel at 12:45, planning on 168 miles til our next motel in Monticello, NY. We stop in Towanda for lunch at 1:45, and then back on the bikes. Get gas at rt. 92, it has ethanol in it, we go about 26 miles with 52 till Monticello and Susan's bike dies again. It is now 4:30 (so it took 2.5 hrs to travel 116 miles on Rt 6) not the best rd to travel.
Lots of trucks! So here we are stuck on 374 near Lenoxville, and a guy Jeff stops and to help the very nice guy, he has two children Robert and his twin sister, He works with the spark plugs and nothing happens in the meantime Susan calls AAA and they dispatch a tow truck. 3.5 hrs later we take off, Susan in the truck and Dru and I following. Wow, what a rough ride. Dark curvy roads, we see deer, lighting, and rain all close. Also at one point, there were two cars stopped and ppl on the side of the road, with another car coming to the other direction, they swerve to missed the ppl and almost hit me. Oh my goodness, I thought I was going to cry, I couldn't stop I had to just pull it together and keep following the truck. The tow truck takes the bike to a Harley shop in Honesdale, Pa.
We get to our hotel by 9:00 pm again, which is not normal at all. Awesome place we are staying at Hotel Wayne. Built-in 1837 cool old place. The bike is sitting at Baer Harley, hopefully, they will get it fixed tomorrow.
I jump in the shower while the other two go get a beer. We then ate next door at Paulies Coneies. Wow, that was good! I had a coney with slaw, chili, and honey mustard.
August 22, 2014
I wake up early today looking for coffee, came downstairs and the guy on duty was not very friendly he says they don’t have coffee until 7 o’clock. He unlocks the door to let me out and pointed me to a gas station. So I ask once I get my coffee can I come back and sit in the dining room and he says no I am cleaning it. I say ok I will sit on the porch. When I get back he is cleaning the porch, so I had upstairs to the second floor and find a little balcony. Which was great, I called Paul and we had a nice visit until we were interrupted by some guy that was kind of scary. I hang up with Paul this guy rambles a bit and then out of the blue he says, you want to have wild sex? I could not believe this I get up and leave what an idiot. I go back to the room Susan is up and trying to call Harley. Not much luck we do breakfast at a small café a couple blocks down the road. She calls again and talks with Paul he told her he would get on it and call her when he’s done. Nothing, finally they start looking at the bike around noon time, so we decided to book another night. Dru And Susan go down to Baer’s while I stay here at the hotel to move our stuff to the new room once they cleaned it. I get a car and the Harley place says there is nothing wrong with her bike. Dru and Susan decide to head towards Rustys Honda shop and sure enough, it dies about a mile down the road. Rustys comes and picks up her bike. I go down and eat some lunch, lobster bisque with an order of broccoli. I get a call from the girls inviting me to join them for lunch upstairs at Rusty’s. I stay back and rest.
They got back around 4 PM so we take up to visit New Jersey taking route six and then turned onto 209, we take Dingmans bridge at the border of New Jersey. We stopped and got for dinner at a place called A&G Tavern, a great little place! I got Stromboli and brought her back to the hotel for breakfast. We got back after dark around 8:00.
Hotel Wayne in Honesdale, PA was a great place to stay. Old and charming.
August 23, 2014
We leave hotel Wayne around 8 o’clock heading north on route 191. We drive straight to Woodstock and stop and look at took pictures, Wish we would have gone into the museum but felt we had to keep moving. Made it to Shelborne Falls to see the bridge of flowers, beautiful! Rt. 2 was a great road, but we came to a hairpin curve with a lookout and Dru pulled in at an angle where she dropped her bike. A guy on a Harley came to help and pick it up, nice guy he also got Susan‘s position to the right. Stopped in Keene, New Hampshire to try to find the hotel but all we could find was north in Bellows Falls in at Nash St., Rodeway Inn motel.
We leave hotel Wayne around 8 o’clock heading north on route 191. We drive straight to Woodstock and stop and look at took pictures, Wish we would have gone into the museum but felt we had to keep moving. Made it to Shelborne Falls to see the bridge of flowers, beautiful! Rt. 2 was a great road, but we came to a hairpin curve with a lookout and Dru pulled in at an angle where she dropped her bike. A guy on a Harley came to help and pick it up, nice guy he also got Susan‘s position to the right. Stopped in Keene, New Hampshire to try to find the hotel but all we could find was north in Bellows Falls in at Nash St., Rodeway Inn motel.
We rode to the restaurant named Joy I bought tie scallops and shrimp very disappointed in the taste $19. You just expect more when you pay more.
August 24, 2014
We head out around 8 o’clock and travel straight to Cape Elizabeth hoping to see Dru‘s lighthouse I think she has a picture of it. When we get there it is packed we could only park in a private drive near gravel we took turns viewing the ocean. We head over to a state park but didn’t want to pay to go in so we head into Portland. Cool town, hard to find parking, we ate at a place called Porhole. Susan and I shared the lobster special buy one get one free. It was so good, this was a first for me. We sat outside on the peir as we ate.
We had for the Motel, I forget the name and where it was. Was a nice place but the Toilet wouldn’t flush. We go to the beach and they sit, WhileI look for coffee and make family phone calls. I also walked down a peer full of shops was entertaining. We eat at a Mexican place with live music back to the hotel to do laundry, I finally had a great sleep.
August 25, 2014
We leave around 8 o’clock headed for Stowe, VT. We get to the hotel of the Von Trapp family around 2:00. We eat lunch out side and walk around the museum a bit. Head for Ben and Jerry’s for ice cream and the go theough the gift shop. Take rt 100, one of my favorite roads( Paul and I did it when we were there) and stopped at the water falls. We make it to our last booked Comfort Inn in Rutland NY. No dinner tonight due to ice cream.
We leave around 8 o’clock headed for Stowe, VT. We get to the hotel of the Von Trapp family around 2:00. We eat lunch out side and walk around the museum a bit. Head for Ben and Jerry’s for ice cream and the go theough the gift shop. Take rt 100, one of my favorite roads( Paul and I did it when we were there) and stopped at the water falls. We make it to our last booked Comfort Inn in Rutland NY. No dinner tonight due to ice cream.
August 26, 2014
We hit the road around 830, leaving Rutland Vermont to seem to take longer than we all expected should’ve been around 308 miles but ended up much more. Which seems to be the story of my life with motorcycle mapping. We stopped for lunch at a little town at a pizza shop and this is where I talked with Katie. Katie had her baby, was a great homebirth but Little Oak Rueben is going to have struggles in life. They are in the hospital with him being tested for downs syndrome. Lord, I pray you will be with them all. I am feeling very guilty that I didn’t go to that birth.
We get to our hotel, Country Inn, Mt Morris, best yet, and before six, earliest arrival also. Walk next-door for dinner I had chicken marsala very good but the chicken was tough.
August 27, 2014
We head for home, I was a bit emotional with the news from Katie I didn’t finish writing about our trip. I believe when we left we drove through Letchworth State Park which the entrance was right across from the Inn.
