Finish: Wheeling, WV
Distance today: 99.7
Total: 522.9
Well, due to bike routes being generally windy, was a bit further than I thought to the state border. At 6pm, we had ridden 60 miles, and still had another 25 to the border, plus an extra 5 to the hotel I found on the iPhone (no convenient campgrounds in WV).
Anyways, it was 8:30 and starting to get dark by the time we reached where the hotel was supposed to be. Alas, there was no hotel to be found... Undaunted, we turned on our headlights and taillights and pushed on yet another 5 miles to the next hotel. Of course, that would have been too easy, and sure enough we found that hotel to be full.
At this point, I decided to start calling hotels before riding to them, and finally found one with rooms available another 5 miles down the road. Arrival time at the hotel: 10pm, having ridden the last 10 miles in the dark!
But the good news is we have left Pennsylvania! And, after all the riding in the dark, we finished nearly all of West Virginia, and are just across the river from Ohio...
Reminds me of the Zurich-Berne ride when in the end we rode the last few miles looking for a student house... Would love to know, amongst you and Michele, who was the first to get back on saddle???
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