September 22 more than we planned for.......but GREAT RIDE!!!!!

Our friend Krista and her daughter Lyndsay did the cancer walk this weekend.  My son Brent rode around on his bike meeting them on Sat. with various pictures from over the years (we have known them from before kids).  So we have been graced with pictures from the whole weekend.  Other son David made it out with wife Kelsi and daughter Rosalie so it was a family gathering.  One we missed as Rosalie is growing fast and we can see the changes.  Regretted not being there.

On to our adventure....Barb woke up with big kink in her upper back, about shoulder blade level. It rained last night and continued through the morning, that is until Barb finally had to get up to go to the bathroom.  She found out it wasn't raining anymore, just the wind blowing rain off the leaves  :>)

We got up, started drying stuff, and fixed breakfast.   I worked Barbs back a bit.  I figured a short day.   

Barb told me she saw some funny birds walking around and I needed to take pictures.....Turkeys!!!!!

 never sink river

Shots taken while riding

if you look real close you can see Barb   :)

various signs like this depicting the Indian wars

Jus before I took this an AmTrack train was crossing...oh well, still a neat bridge

having too much fun

 With Barbs back bothering her I figured we would stop in Port Jervis and reassess how far we were going today.  Port Jervis was only about 10 miles from our campsite.  We rode through Port Jervis looking for a pastry shop, and by and by WE FOUND ONE!!!!!!!!  After eating more than our fill of pastries, it was determined we could make another 43 miles to Delaware Water Gap (the town).  So away we went, down the Delaware Water Gap, the national park.  but before we go, a couple of shots of Port Jervis

Always checking to make sure I don't belong here....

AND OFF INTO THE GAP....This is not a trail, it is a road, and we actually saw cars.....once in awhile.  By the way we passed into New Jersey

she just says she has a kinked back....I don't see it...

more corn

more rock

more busy highway.....

hadto get Barb outa here before she started buying crafts... 

liked the scarecrow on the tombstone

Then we got here....start of big climb, a little too steep.  I had to walk my bike for about a half mile up.  Right before we started Barb found out she had broken her eggbeater peddle clip on her right peddle. NOT something you want before a big climb.....but she made it.

I took this as it looked like a serpent...oh well so much for visuals.

After the big climb and climb and climb, the trip was generally down.  mostly farm and forest, no water.  Then just before Water Gap, we could actually see water through the trees.   

back to the trail

I-80 across the Delaware.  we took the sidewalk.  Those steel beams could FLEX!!!!  sometimes we could fell them bounce long after the trucks were gone!!!!!!  Crossing this bridge got us into PA!!!!!

 

got to Delaware Water Gap and a hotel, not to mention pizza and a pastry shop in the morning!!!!!