Tuesday, August 1, 2017

The ups and downs of Pennsylvania

Sun. 7/30: Clearfield, PA
Left my credit card at a restaurant the night before, and didn't figure it out until I was about 5 miles down the road... this added a total of 10 miles to my trip by the time I rode back. Then about another 5 miles of detours from missing a turn around DuBois. The day's total was 78 miles with 3100 ft of vertical.
DuBois, PA... It's not Philadelphia

Mon. 7/31: State College, PA

Only miles from Clearfield to State College (home of my Alma Mater, Penn State), but 2500 ft. of climbing. Ended the ride with ice cream at Penn State's creamery. It took about 20 minutes standing in line. A lot of the people there were high school kids on college tours.
Penn State's creamery.

Tue. 8/01: Lewisburg
Started the day with breakfast at the Diner, where I spent a pretty significant amount of my time in college playing pinball in the back (not there anymore) and having the $0.65 special for breakfast: 2 eggs, potatoes and toast. Now it's about $5.75. Topped that with a grilled sticky. This has gotten very heavily promoted, so they're really mass produced now and not nearly as good as I remember. Of course, back in the '70's I usually had a grilled sticky in college after midnight, often while high.
On the way out of town, stopped in to Meyer's dairy, another top flight ice cream haunt.

Proceeded on roads I biked on when I was an undergrad. Amish country. PA192 is lovely. Gently rolling hills with the last 10 miles predominantly downhill. My hotel is next to a HUGE restaurant (Country Cupboard), seats 500, includes a bakery, creamery, gift shop. The dessert buffet is awesome.
Lewisburg is another college town: Bucknell Today's ride was not as hilly... only 1200 ft.

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