(28 miles)
I can’t recall ever thinking about it, but before this morning I guess I always assumed that all motel breakfast areas pretty much looked the same.
As I left the motel I saw these stickers on a car parked in the lot.
I mentioned to the two servicemen walking toward me that I appreciated stickers. One guy thanked me, noting that no one had ever commented on them.
(Editor’s comment: Perhaps no one was close enough to read them?)
The wild animals in Pennsylvania are wilder than I thought.
I rode PA 462 to Lancaster as it offered the only reasonably close bridge over the Susquehanna River. Here’s a view from the bridge. US30 is seen in the background
The weather was upper 70’s, but the ride was noisy and not particularly enjoyable.
The best route from York to John’s place in Coatesville is through Lancaster. My original plan was to then continue riding the 30 miles east from Coatesville to King of Prussia on Saturday and spend the night at a motel there.
On Sunday, I would leave my bike at the motel, take the 20-mile, 1-hour local bus ride to Independence Plaza in Philadelphia, spend a few hours there, then take the bus back to motel. On Monday I would ride back to Coatesville, then continue back to York, as the best way to bike from Philadelphia to Washington DC is to re-trace my route back to York, and then head south from there.
While I knew Lancaster is the home to a large Amish community, my original plan was to just over-night there. But when I got to Lancaster it seemed to me that extending the trip from Coatesville to Philadelphia and back again just to spend a few hours at Independence Plaza would be less interesting than spending the time in Lancaster. I decided to drop the Philadelphia extension, and spend the time in Lancaster when I returned from Coatesville.
A horse and buggy in traffic on US30 in Lancaster