Gotta enjoy this gorgeous weather. Off we go 

Met up with Tom at sheetz in Walkersville the. Northward we go
Finally she got the opportunity to ride on one!then some more great back road riding ​

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On our “Royal King” ride heading toward our favorite Italian place called “Kings Pizza in Brunswick. Real lovely afternoon riding on rt 340 and then backroad to Kings pizza

Really delicious. 5 star from me!

What a great day. Temp rising from low 30’s to 76 by early afternoon today! Awesome ride!

Arrival of Tom 

Discussing n deciding our route for the day on this amazing warm weather!

Roughly this route toward  Whites Ferry. Never been there myself!

Making a short stop 
Onward we go
And guess where we came to

To Virginia side.  Thena short ride later

To awesome. Really!!  Gave it 5 star review!!

 Awesome!!!

And our route/statsDefinitely an awesome day to start the year 2017 biking all year long!

Sunday, October 23rd – Eric hosted this great all day bike trip to Lancaster county area. He originally schedule Saturday with Sunday as rain date. If weather was not too windy on Saturday, I would have missed his great trip  therefore am thankful for strong gust wind on Saturday! 

Anyhow as I get ready to meet up with group at Starbucks in Mt Airy

A short ride away

7 of us altogether. All set to start the day!

Here’s our road captain ~ amazing with his old technologyand a map

A short quick stop enroutesecond page all good to go!ready for our lunch at one of those Amish restaurant just before we enter the restaurantnice hehconverted Amish biker!now our table r readyeating!then comes our dessert that Lindy purchased for us to sample. How sweet of her!called shoo fly pie. Could’ve eaten the whole thing however that ll way exceed recommended sugar intake for the whole day for everyone really!!!that s the place! I gave it 2 star vote 😢   Off we go for a short bike ride to see caboose accommodation. Very interesting debating whether we oughta head a bit north to the famous soft pretzel place or head home. Two didn’t want to join us so we bid them farewellafter they departed we realize that the pretzel place is closed on Sunday’s 

Decide to head back home

Decided to stick w back road heading back home – almost 11 hour day trip and a total of 250 miles. Kudos to our road captain, Eric Mansfield for a well planned day bike trip! We all had a great time!

This time – taking my mother outlaw for some local backroad riding!our first stop,  short visit with the Reedy family

Back riding again heading north toward sorry did not stop to take any pictures here – continue a short distance to

​​then we went by Wegman to get some food n on to Frederick airport then finally home sweet home!

Going by the most frequent sweet ride – Harper’s Ferry plus Shenandoah River ride. Taking  Jerry, husband of my mother outlaw😉

Saturday morning – spectacular sky! Gonna be a great ride!

With the storm in process eastward of our area 

Above Harper’s Ferry in WVa facing Potomac River and Maryland to our left

For our light New York sandwich. Awesome! Realizing that we have not taken at least a picture of our sandwich😢

Off we go – by Shenandoah River. Where number of humans lazily the River on tubes n floats n more

Our data n route of the day.

Quite hot -90 degree yet off we go!

Doing some serious back road to this South Mountain Creamery for some ice cream 
Saw a rally of Mini Cooper coming by for some ice cream

Then on we go to a tower an then Gathland

Glad to have my son riding w me! He wanted home after Gathland. No more riding 😪. Fun although!

Taking my son out on my motorcycle to Royaliciois Bagel n Bakery then some ride by the Shenandoah River. Very nice morning while Marika at JFK heading out to Israel and Karita at Venice Beach at the moment

Harper’s Ferry

And some latte too!

Talking via FaceTime with my dearest  Daughter, Marika while she s st JFK inside her EL AL 747 plane 
Have yet to FaceTime with my other daughter, Karita. Am sure we ll do that later today!

Of course with some stops both directions

Getting ready to go. – get gas then on to Schifferstadt building – to meet with Tom Korn – biker buddy for the day! 7:30am all  set to go
Here’s Tom Korn

Taking a look at those antique signs

Lincoln Highway for a very short time as we continue northward 
Can ya guess why Tom r riding on my bike?

Ran out of gas heh. Luckily gas station was about two miles down the hill. 

Off we continue 

After Tom got his bike filled up with a gal of gas. Off he went down the hill to fill up his bike while I wait at the mountaintop stop n vp with my mother

Then a short biking northbound 

After a good swim n drying in the sun. Off we continue northward toward State College. 1 hour and 50 min to go

Covered bridge 

We have arrived!! Our ultimate destination!
And

That s the awesome one!

See the menu.  Amazing. All real home made Austrian food! 

And

Then for my dessert

Awesome food. Delicious!!.  Gave em 5 star rating the last time via Google!
That’s the one!
That s the owner of restaurant (and his parents too I think?). He remember us from our first trip up. Today was my 2nd time! 
That was our next stop. Highest rating. Student made ice cream on Penn State University campus
Long line 

Delicious!

Happy!

PSU stadium

Back to same gap for a short stop over

Then to a pub for a drink. To my surprise they allow smoking inside so smoked a cigar while drinking beer
14 1/2 hours and 315 miles of awesome riding on an awesome day with an awesome lunch too!

Then latte with ice cream to wrap up an awesome day!  Thank you Tom for coming along! It was fun!

Sean emailed n asked if any chance for a last minute ride –  could do so for a couple of hours in the afternoon. Off we met n ride some heading toward River area then on to Larry n Nancy Reedy’s son event. The. Off home I went. Weather wise – quite hot yet enjoyed the ride! 

And then the Reedy s place

Unfortunately I didn’t get a pic of his family w his son😪

A total of 2 hour and 40 min – including the stops and visit! Thank you Sean for the last minute ride!

Needing to drop off basketball gear w my son. Asked my Dearest Marika to join me for a ride. Drop off backpack – stop by Rita s for some Italian ice and Misto Shake for her then on for a leisurely ride. Love it!

My son missing riding in bike. Decide to go for a 45 min sweet back road ride. Very nice ride! Not much to share here other than a pic and the route n stats