12 JUN. off to Lake Erie, PA

 Today’s Ride dedication is for Lisa Conklin she has been thyroid cancer free since 2019. This is great!!! if you would like to help others in their battle, You can go to the American cancer society link below

.American cancer society

Click donate, enter fred kern, hit search, then tap participant. Thank you.

Last night we stayed at the Holiday Inn which was very nice and I found this morning I basically needed to do the hokey pokey to get to my bike.

As I biked along the area changed it went from wooded forest to fields and everywhere in between.  this was a cool house but it had a very ominous warning for trespassers out front. I’m just saying they probably have cameras and saw me take a picture.  No biggie. Leaving that house in those woods brought me into open fields and at one point the clouds started building and it looked rather threatening.

Shortly thereafter the skies cleared and I snapped this picture. In the back near the house is a dog and I’m pretty sure he was looking at us and thinking, “oh boy, a doggy chase toy…“

Roughly by mile 25 I managed to catch up with the group and I rode with them probably not more than a mile because I got some good pictures.

I’m hoping all the landscape and topography pictures aren’t too boring but on a bike I find it absolutely fascinating everything moves so gentle and merges together seamlessly.

A few miles later after leaving the group I saw this old barn. The pictures don’t really do it justice but it was a pretty massive barn. It’s kind of dilapidated and falling down now but I just wonder what the story of it was say 50 years ago?

This is the back of a drive-in movie theater, I’m pretty sure it’s still active and still showing movies but I could be wrong. Anyway I thought it was a very interesting paint job on the back. After that was a hill climb and when I got to the top there was this really huge wheatfield and if you look close you can see the mountains in the background.

After that was the first SAG stop of the day and one of the riders wanted to take a slight detour to see covered bridges. We have a lot of them in Pennsylvania; as a matter fact my bike club has a covered bridge ride in October which shows off five covered bridges. I opted to go with her and look at the covered bridge.

We tried to take a shortcut from the bridge back onto the main road and it turned out to be a dirt road which had just been graded and was about half inch of soft dirt.  We turned around and went back the way we came and she went to look at another covered bridge and I went to SAG stop number two. I had to really hustle to get there before it was closed.  it was at the Turkey Hill diner and they have incredibly wonderful root beer floats.

Less than a mile after that we crossed into Pennsylvania and within 15 miles we were at Lake Erie. We are staying at the Marriott courtyard on Lake Erie and it’s a pretty nice hotel. Tomorrow is a rest day so I will probably not have any postings.

And that is pretty much it for the day.