Saturday and Sunday 062709 and 062809

We've made it to Gettysburg!

Yesterday, 062709, we left the house about 6:30AM after a visit from cousin Sarah Jane, pal John Friedler and other pal and motorcycle confidant Rob Bergh.

Rob has been instrumental in setting up Mark's Triumph with several farkles including crash bars, w2indshield and CB radio. Rob stayed with us as far as Route 140 just over 495 near Bellingham.

I had the GPS set to keep us off all highways, so we did a lot of hilling and daling thereafter. Most of the roads were good adn entertaining. We had a nice lunch in Brimfield, and kept going west and south and west and south and so on. It seemed to take a lot longer than it should have, and we had one good rain downpour in the Granville area. We took route 57 then south to 44 and in to NY on 199. The evening was at the Sky Top Motel (now a Rodeway Inn) with a steakhouse on the same property. We were both beat but went over for a light supper (chieckn fingers for Mark and Cheicken Caesar for me) I also had two glasses of cabernet; back to the room and asleep by 10!

Today, 062809 we left Kingston, NY and the Rodeway about 7AM on Route 209 which we were able to stay on for about 200 miles to Millersburg, PA., Route 209 has some absolutely wonderful riding and runs through the Delaware River Gap. We made okay time despite the great roads, should have been faster but we're staying within traffic which is generally about the posted limit on these secondary and back roads.

Breakfast was in Huegenot, NY at Try-My-Deli. Two eggs, homefries, bacon (3 slices of good stuff) and toast for $2.99!

New York was really beautiful with a lot of horse country and generally looking pretty prosperous. Pennsylvania had some really nice medium-sized towns with apparent prosperity, but many of the old mill and factory towns are not in good shape. We didn't see outward poverty, just deferred maintenance. Lunch was a slice of pizza and a coke on the fly at Marco's pizza. Then off to Millersburg which remains a really nice town. We didn't check out the ferry over the Susquehana River just because we were ready to get to Gettysburg and had 60 miles to go.

Tonight we are at a Day's Inn with a Perkins (no liquor license) restaurant adjacent. I will take a look tomorrow to see if I can find a restaurant nearby to get a pop or two and still be able to walk back to the hotel.

The room is very nice and we've got free wifi.

Tomorrow we are off to Gettysburg proper to check out the battle grounds and get in a little history.