| Blue Ridge Parkway Trip Sept 7th - 14th, 2002 A Daily Journal by Fran Hill |
| 13th |
| We slept a little later and got on the road at about 8:30am. The temperatures were much warmer and I was well rested. Robin and I did manage to get a little payback on Andi this morning. While they were out packing their bikes, Robin and I discovered they had left their room door open. We snuck in and surprised Andi when she opened the door. Before we got back on the highway, Robin led us through Hershey, PA where we got to enjoy the smell of chocolate everywhere. Then it was on through Pennsylvania where we experienced the same smells of silage, cows and who knows what that we had enjoyed on the trip down. We stopped in Straussburg,PA at a little store that sold sheepskin and leather goods. We all purchased pieces of sheepskin to put on our bike seats to help cushion our butts which were starting to fill the effects of so many miles on a bike. Andi bought a nice leather jacket and had quite a time trying to find room to fit it in her overloaded pack. Our return trip brought us back through the Poconos, Catskills and Berkshires Mts. We decided to try and make Northampton, MA by the end of the day. Bad idea�the road map did not really show how much the route wound around through so many towns plus the road signs were poor. We managed to get off the track a few times. We found ourselves still traveling well after dark� Andi had never believed she would ever ride her bike on the Mass Pike, much less be riding it on the Mass Pike, after dark, on Friday the 13th! We finally made it to Northampton at 9:45pm. We skipped supper and went to our rooms for our last night on the road. We had a few laughs trying to call back and forth between rooms. Robin called their room and said �this is Gail�s whorehouse calling�. A strange woman�s voice said �excuse me?���Robin had the wrong room number. Then our phone rang and I figured it was Gail and Andi calling to harass us, so I answered the phone, loudly yelling, �what do you want�!! It was the guy at the front desk wanting to know if we were expecting a fax..Oops! We decided to stay off the phone and go to sleep. Total Miles � Day 7 � 380 Miles |