Day 31, June 16th
Another meeting with the law, partly cause of the missing plate and partly cause I was standing up to get some feeling back in my buttocks. But he was cool and let me go after looking at the title and my drivers license:
After that it was a pretty plain day until the last bit where we drove some of the Colonial Parkway and made it out Chesapeake Bay:
My dads bike had lost almost all the lights so we looked at that and quickly found the cause:
Also found some broken hose having to do with the Cali emission crap, patched it with tape:
Day 32, June 17th
Trying to get to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge we ran into the law again. And this guy was no easy piece to charm since his sole purpose was to check plates having special equipment for it. And my argument that we were going to leave Virginia that day didn’t help much. He wanted to see all the papers and when Sweden wasn’t available on his computer he wanted my international drivers license also that he looked at for a quite a while before we could continue. Once satisfied he was very friendly and had advices on routes to take. He said we would be better off manufacturing some home made plate:
Atlantic Ocean in the background on some break on the Bridge that also contains two tunnels:
Heading north along the Delmarva Peninsula we made it into Maryland:
Found a bigger more snappy turtle:
Dinner was at some relatives we could stay the night at:
Cardboard, plastic wrap, duct tape and zip ties and voila a home made plate …this wont survive long:
Later we went for ice cream in Ellicott City some old rail road city:
Day 33, June 18th
We started heading west again, riding smaller roads it brought us a little north into Pennsylvania:
Saw this strange thing with a gas bottle by a pole with a hose going up and connection to a tube in the air …looked dangerous:
Day 34, June 19th
Starting from Hancock, Maryland we rode the scenic by way:
We found John Stewart road:
Some have a plane on the roof:
Ended up on some gravel road we a tree blocking the path, had to take my dads bike around it:
Ended up being a locked gate at the end but it was also possible to go around, didn’t feel like back tracking after getting around this:
Found a cool reversed cement truck seems to be common but here we could get a nice picture:
Country road take me home! Well we did enter West Virginia:
We pretty much just saw a steel mill:
Had some rain starting before we were going over a bridge into Ohio:
Amish warnings:
And the real thing, they seemed a bit camera shy tho:
Found a place to park the bikes since it looked like more rain during the night: