Tuesday, July 19, 2016: Four states
I left Skyland at 9
a.m. and soon was heading down the mountain and into the Shenandoah Valley. I
found a scenic mountain road to cross Massanuten Mountain and get to Route 11. Once
on Route 11, I rode north along the valley through Virginia, West Virginia,
Maryland, and into Pennsylvania. In Maryland (my home state), I stopped and asked a county sheriff for directions to find a road that bypassed downtown Hagerstown (where my ancestors settled in the 1750s). He was very helpful.
I was tired when I reached Carlisle, but
decided to press on and make it to Pine Grove, where I stayed in a Hampton Inn
three weeks ago, when I was forced to take shelter from a thunderstorm. That
last stretch included about 20 miles in Interstate 81, which was
nerve-wracking, and then a peaceful stretch of back-country mountain roads.
I am ready to be
home, but I still have two or three more days of riding to get there.
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