End: Holidaysburg
Distance today: 89.8
Total: 347.7
We passed the 100-pi mark today!! I've decided that 1000-pi is a pretty good approximation of the distance from New York to San Francisco, which means that we are a tenth of the way through the trip!
The afternoon found us following the Pennsylvania bike route G onto a path created from an old railway track. It's called 'rails to trails'. It was a beautiful ride along a river, with no cars... Nice and flat. Only problem was that it wasn't paved, and on road bikes loaded with all our equipment, it was only a matter of time...
Sure enough, Michele had a little tumble. Nothing too serious, a scraped knee... But it was enough that we decided to skip out on the trail and return to paved roads. Unfortunately, by this time it was almost 7pm. There were no official campsites nearby, and with michele needing to clean up her scrapes, plus the fact that most of our gear was still wet from last nights thunderstorm, we were looking for a nice hotel.
The nearest town, Williamsburg, had nothing of the sort, so with daylight running out, and Michele's knees scraped up, we pushed a final 15 miles to the nearest hotel, arrived around 8:45 pm, just as the sun was sinking below the horizon, and promptly went to the restaurant across the street for a beer.
:)
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