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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Joel Perlish: Miles Riding From Havertown, PA To...

 Joel Perlish: Day 1 and Day 2 Miles Riding From Havertown, PA To...

JUNE 30, 2015 - TUESDAY - Day 1
   Miles Today- 260miles   25830->26090   Total Miles- 260miles
   Began in  HAVERTOWN,PA (12pm)
   Ended in  DONEGAL,PA   (5pm) - 5hrs
      STAYED: Holiday Inn Express Donegal

  - - CLOUDY GALORE --
The housing developments soon melted into into farmland and grain silos rising…. And then, further down the turnpike the landscape transitioned into mountains of forests piercing into the blue sky and clouds.

At 83 miles gassed up and ate the first part of a cheese hoagie I had brought along…  I put my earplug in here at one- and-a-half miles into the ride, and wish i had done so sooner. It makes a difference not hearing those huge semi’s blasting by….   
Most all day the wind buffeting was amazingly strong. Had to concentrate pretty heavy especially when passing - or being passed - by the gargantuan trucks.

Rode through heavy rain for about 15 minutes and had to keep cleaning visor and glasses from the drops of the pelting water…  When I could see there were dark clouds all around me… but ahead was clear and soon rode out onto dry pavement and sunshine.

Stopped at 1:15pm at the PA Turnpike’s Midway rest stop.  Went in this time and sat a bit - got a fruit/veggie drink and a little bag of chips. Thought the chips had no sugar but noted that in tiny tiny print it did. Darn, but okay…  Called back home and caught up on emails on my iPhone.

At 5pm, after exactly 5 hours of riding, I checked into a Holiday Inn Express.  The clouds were menacing, and shortly after arriving the storm hit with a vengeance!!!

JULY 1,2015 - WEDNESDAY -Day 2
   Miles Today-  249  26090-> 26339  Total Miles- 509
   Began in  Donegal, PA 
   Ended in  London, OH
      STAYED: Holiday Inn Express
------>> A BRUSH WITH THE LAW <<---- div="">
Good that I left a day early, the sky was darkly overcast this morning and there was a slight bit of drizzle. But since I can do less miles a day, I have the great luxury of taking my time in leaving.
On my 8:30am walk along the highway the wind was strong against me, and one blast blew my red Cardinal hat right off - unfortunately right into a badly placed puddle beside the road….  I shook off the excess muddy water and continued down the hill.
The riding day was rugged… Huge blasting buffeting wind from all directions but especially into my face.  No sitting back in the seat left arm on my hip and watching the passing scenery. Nope, not today. It was all business gripping the handlebars firmly scanning the highway ever more so carefully for holes to avoid and monster trucks to be wary of, and ready for.  My head bobbled all day from the jarring wind, and once my face shield almost blew right off the helmet. I had to pull over and try to attach it best I could on the shoulder of the highway.
Morning was overcast, but gradually that gave way to high clouds and sunshine. It was cool riding in the morning and I wished I had put my thin yellow jacket on… And then in the afternoon it got somewhat warmish, and I was SORRY I had put it on at lunchtime.
But this day will be remembered by the backup through Columbus… and my brush with the law. 
Approached I-70 through Columbus, Ohio, and there was a sign mentioning that the Interstate was closed ahead, and it gave an appropriate detour. My experience with such signs is that they are invariably wrong… 
That they are out of date. That they are not to believed - especially on big highways, and especially when all the town folks - those who should be in the know - are ignoring the detour sign by the hundreds… 
This time, however, everyone was wrong!!!  And we, by the 1000’s, found ourselves bottlenecked in a traffic jam that was miles and miles long through out all of the Columbus area.  Now that may be fine if you’re sitting in an air-conditioned car with pretty music from your car radio. But when it’s 90ish degrees out on the slab and you're in your motorcycle armor duck-waddling along and trying to guide your 1000-lb.+ motorcycle machine some 5 inches every ten minutes, it’s just not a picnic. My left hand squeezing the clutch lever took an especially big beating. (I was glad they had put in a new clutch during the bike’s recent service call because I “rode” that clutch practically through all of Columbus, Ohio!)   And that was in whatever lane of the 4-5 lane highway I happened to be sitting in....
I endured this for about an hour or so, and never did see the end of the line. Finally someone shouted over to me to take I-470 north just ahead and that there was an exit that would bring me to the other side of whatever the I-70 disaster was ahead on that road.  As I was tiptoeing in that direction I rolled over to a construction worker and verified what I should do…. Now I had oh-so-resisted skirted down the emergency lane or splitting the lanes (as motorcyclists call it when one darts down between lanes - legal only in California I think)…   Well there was a side lane as I left the construction worker, and I asked him with a wink if he’d arrest me if I took it, and he said with a smile, “Well, I’m a construction worker and not a policeman!”  So I skirted ahead of about 50 cars - big deal! a little motorcycle! And felt pretty darn proud of myself… and THEN, I heard the police siren, and saw the burly officer pointing over to me.  GULP!
I dutifully pulled over and immediately asked him if i was going the right way, but he said that I shouldn’t be on the berm, and could he please see my license?  I sputtered that I was hot, my bike was burning up, that I had to go to the bathroom, and that I’d been around the continent twice on that bike and this was the first time I had been pulled over.  Then I moved my hand in the way that Obi-Wan Kanobi does when HE’S stopped for a ticket, and the officer then said, “Well make sure you don’t do it again, and I’ll just let you off with a warning.”  I asked him what this jam was all about and seems that some chemical truck exploded on the bridges ahead earlier in the morning. The fireball took down both bridges!!!  I commiserated with the officer, then took off being VERY careful to stay away from that berm.
(Reminded me of the time in 1980 when I was on my bicycle on the Interstate through Missouri (on my Coast-to-Coast trip) when the officer pulled behind and motioned me over. We had a little chat in his front seat about bicycles not being allowed on the Interstate, and I mention how much flatter it was on the big road, and how I was writing a book about my pursuits.  At the mention of writing a book, the officer put down his pad, gave me a warning, and escorted me to the next exit!!!!)
So I followed the directions given and that led to another jam up - and when I finally made the turn I was told to make, it seemed to lead right back where I had been before.  But it didn’t.  It joined I-70 beyond the no-bridge point, and from there is was smooth sailing…. I took a rest break shortly after getting on the highway, and then raced the 50 more miles I wanted to get in this day.  The day took two extra hours than it should have. But I got to a Holiday Inn Express, raced to the counter with my helmet and front bag, asked the front counter toothless women if they had a room for me, she said they did and began to tell me the pricing. I blurted out that it didn’t matter, and that I was caught in that traffic tie-up, and where’s the bathroom?  I need it…..  And got there barely in time….
After cleansing shower, I typed as long as my tired eyes and body could keep going.

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