Tentative route pre-planned
As a road captain, review our short n sweet bike route and the stops we will make for the day.
Aren’t we being silly or they making fun of me heh
Cigar time!
by the Shenandoah river
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Wheatgrass drink!
Trying wheatgrass for the first time
Delicious lunch at this lovely place in Shepherdstown, WVA
Our famous EDB officers!
Delicious Famous Dave Dinner
Stats for the day
Actual route for the day
Met up with Eric and Larry at Exxon then the 3 of us ride together to Columbia campus for first day – morning gathering
Using back road throughout. Now here at MSD Columbia campus
Panera bread for our lunch
Back to Frederick campus in the afternoon. Fun ride w ya guys!
Coming back home unexpectedly with my son because his football coach, Andy was able to revive middle school football team after finding at least three different teams to play against at the time being so we both return home a bit earlier in the day in order for him to attend their first practice of the season!
Late lunch – delicious!
Got home safely yet encountered heavy traffic at some locations coming back home
And then off my son went to his first football practice of the season!
And
Crossing the Chesapeake Bay
Temp 88-89 degree n humid ⛅️
Trying to beat this rain as I ride eastward alongside with the storm
Approaching the famous Ocean City inlet
Arriving coastal highway/street
Our dear Goldwing first time to Atlantic Ocean cuz this GW been to pacific coast a few weeks ago!
Just started to shower. Was fortunate to have beaten the storm!
Hugging my dearest daughter, Marika!
Getting dizzy hugging my dearest daughter!
Adding my dearest wife here
Son, Rory too busy upstairs with his toy, ps3 while daughter, Karita stuck back home attending volleyball camp all week long. Poor her!
Stats for the trip
Route taken
Gone to the boardwalk. Always enjoy the summer peak crowd. The spirit, the food, the life and the view out here!
Getting dizzy once again eh
That wraps up the afternoon/evening!
Richard and his famous yellow and/or mustard Harley!
This time – doing back country route because I did not enjoy highway riding yesterday at all!
This is really a fascinating place to watch train come and go by
Going down via funicular car (I did walk up 194 steps) n decide to take a ride down to enjoy the scenery
Getting ready to start the day – going to Bobs Evans for breakfast with David and his wife
Visiting David’s work place
Breaks my heart as this was our last stop as we are to split shortly, jimmy staying on 80 while me getting onto 76 heading southeast toward Pittsburgh then near 70
Knowing that our summer of biking is near the very end. The westbound trip with the whole group then northern route with Jimmy and the very last part of the eastern route then everything is etched into history! Really Breakspear heart!
This is where we officially split!
Arrived destination for the day – Richard Vogetsberg.
He served his home made sausage. Delicious!
Stats for the day
Route for the day. – use the upper line as the lower line was the westbound route
Arriving late last night, not being able to see anything. This morning, this is the view from our room – the famous Mackinaw Island
Our Inn
The famous Mackinac Bridge
After we crossed this bridge, wanted the opportunity to touch this other famous lake, Lake Huron
Really delicious local cherry pie. Yummy. The region r so famous for cherries!
Traverse City – very nice town
After Jimmy s lunch and my cherry pie. We r getting ready to do the last leg for the day
Ready to move on!
Rained on and off however much less than yesterday!
Arrived our destination – our high school classmate, David Dietch
David’s darling wife!
Our stats for the day
Whole day in the state of Michigan!
Lake Superior
The City, Duluth
Enjoy watching beautiful tall ship sail under bridge
Visiting the famous Aerostitch store
At least I got to buy something. Winter gore tex motorcycle glove as it was really cool n supposed to rain a lot all day long today
Gyro for our lunch – not too bad!
Enjoying the view while they prepare our lunch!
Here s the lunch!
Lake Superior
Pizza for our dinner
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Route for the day
Morning! Knowing it s going to be a long day – weather wise – quite cool and clouds developing later in the day – doing over 600 miles today!
Geographical Center of North America!
Rugby, ND
Daryl Frelich childhood home
Lunch!
All home made soup!
Delicious home made soups
And salad too!
Trying to find Devils in this lake yet couldn’t find any?
Stats for the day! 609 miles right on the nose (unintentionally!)
Our route for the day
A good morning drink!
Getting ready to start the day!
What a beautiful morning it is!
Approaching majestic Glacier National Park – NE view
Eastern view – Sunrise!
SE view of this majestic region!
Panorama view
Entering the Glacier National Park from west side
Beautiful!
Beautiful ridge!
And then onward across the whole state of Montana till we reach North Dakota!
Our hearty dinner
Arrived our destination for the day
Couldn’t resist a cup of coffee at hotel after a long day of biking. Morning in Glacier National Park then all afternoon n evening biking across Montana!
Our stats for the day
Route of the day
As we departed Spokane Valley, WA heading eastward – a short 30 minute, we have arrived the famous Coeur D’Alene, Idaho
Delicious Latte!
Beautiful view!
Would love to go for a ride!
There are a total of five life size moose statues throughout this town. Saw two or three!
Beautiful town!
Leaving town to explore more of the region
Shall we go for a swim?
Lunch time!
Having lunch by the lake!
What is it?
Really delicious!
Jimmy finally joined w me for lunch by the lake!
Took a swim. It was really neat!
Now we r moving toward Kalispell
That’s where we had our lunch and swam some!
View from my bike!
Montana here we are!
Going for another swim!
Find Jimmy?
Time for some local craft beer!
My dinner!
Our redneck motel for the night – 1 star heh
At least they got a hot tub, sauna and pool. Ain’t that bad?
Our stats for the day
Our route for the day
