Motorcycle Trip

My Dad and I had an awesome motorcycle trip last weekend!  We rented bikes near Allentown, PA and rode back roads North to Route 6.  Then we drove West across PA zig zagging from the New York border and back down the Route 6.  We continued to the PA Grand Canyon, and down through a couple state parks.  At the end of our full loop, we started playing follow the leader and drove all kinds of crazy back roads that sometimes led us in the right direction, and sometimes turned into a dirt road and eventually hit a dead end.  The cost really isn't too bad to rent a Harley for a day, and the experience was just amazing.  The leaves are turning in Northern PA making mountain we climbed even more beautiful.  This is absolutely going to become an annual event.

I rented a Harley Fat Boy and my dad got a Harley V Rod Muscle.  These bikes have completely different riding styles, sounds, speeds, and overall experience.  It was great to switch back and forth every couple hours.  Here is a picture of the 2 bikes at the top of the Grand Canyon.

This is my dad on the fat boy.

Here is my awesome "strike a pose" moment on the fat boy.

We stayed in Covington, PA with a close relative on Friday night and greatly enjoyed lounging in a hot tub after a full day of riding.  I planned on us riding about 175 miles each day for a total of 350.  We ended up riding 540 miles because we were having so much fun and kept taking side trips on random roads.

We rode a really nice ridge in between Allentown and Bloomsberg with a long series of wind mills.  Up and down the mountain had some great switchback turns and climbs.  It was funny to look forward to the speed advisory signs for turns.  35mph was ok, but the best turns were 10-20 mph.  We could cruise through all of them about 15mph over the advisory speed leaning from the outside of the turn to the inside, and back out.

This trip was absolutely fantastic.  Maybe we'll get a couple more people to jump in next year and we'll go explore Western PA.