Socal to Phila road trip, Day 4....PA, PREPARE TO BE BOARDED!!!!

So on the 4th day, I started to get a little antsy but was glad that I wouldn't be spending the night in a crummy hotel with sweaty smelly pillows. Here's Dayton or Columbus, I forget which...maybe I should've done this while my memory was still fresh. Oh well.


Here's me speeding by small Ohio neighborhoods.

Luckily, a few miles outside of Columbus, I found this:

You guessed it, I missed the exit and had to wait 10 miles to turn around and go back westward! So I finally arrived and was greeted by the above gates and also this:
SO COOL...anyway on to the motorcycles

They didn't really have a lot of interesting bikes. Here's a few of an old Norton


This is Tom Cruise's Triumph, which he rode in Mission Impossible 3, see next pic, click to embiggen.


A cool indian, which was stuffed away in a back corner...OK maybe a little background is needed here. So they were having a display of bikes from famous people, so they had that Tom Cruise bike and a few others such as the bike that Neil Peart, of Rush fame rode after the death of his daughter and wife within the space of a year. He rode 55,000 miles around North America to clear his mind. He wrote a book called Ghost Rider about it. There were other bikes too like TV bikes from the Captain America tv show and a few others that didn't really jump out in my mind.

This harley was cool, it was super long and really thin and had a neat drawing on the top of the tank, see a few pics down.



Gold accents on the engine of the same harley

Another Indian racer, this was prominently displayed.

Neat looking bike

This bike was ridden by Will Smith in the movie iRobot I believe.

Two triumphs welcomed visitors at the front of the museum, this was one of them and the other is below. Matching Triumphs.

The other one, there are slight differences.


So after leaving the museum, I went on to more Ohio countryside. Ohio is a really beautiful state, flat but beautiful. Lots of green and trees and little farms like this one.

Leaving Ohio and entering West Virginia. There was a nice riverside town on one side of this bridge, but unfortunately I accidentally focused on the windows of my car instead of the scenery and it all came out bad. Sorry

And leaving West Virginia and entering Pennsylvania. If you look at a map, there is an impossibly thin section of west virginia peeking northward between Ohio and PA.

So I stopped in Latrobe to visit a good friend who was doing rotations there. We had lunch and I went on my way. It was my first contact with a friendly soul for 3 and a half days. It was fun. After leaving Latrobe, El GPS took me on a backcountry road heading towards the main highway. I went through the Allegheny Mountains, and saw some really pretty country.

I passed by Fort Ligonier:

At the top of a hill overlooking PA countryside, oh I also passed a side road that leads to where Flight 93 crashed outside of Shanksville, PA (I was on Hwy 30).



PA was the prettiest state I drove through, tied with AZ, but they're different categories of pretty. Mixed in with all the forests are big huge hills and rolling countryside as far as the eye could see. It was moving...I kinda wish it was California's backyard...so California would be surrounded by the majestic beauty of AZ's canyons and the rolling foresty countryside of PA. That would be perfect...now just need a few million years for California and AZ to fall off the continent, make its way around the world and over on to the east coast, crashing through and completely obliterating New Jersey and snuggling up next to philadelphia.



I passed by the manufacturing facility for Cannondale Bicycles in Bedford, PA. Kinda cool, my ex roommate rides a Cannondale and actually so do I, but I left that bike at home.

Back on the main highway, destination: Philadelphia. I passed through 3 mountains via tunnels. Here's Tunnel 1:

Tunnel dos:

Last Tunnel:

And that's all, after that it was a straight shot to Phila with nothing very interesting along the way. I arrived sometime after 9pm. I traveled a little over 2700 miles in 4 days and I wished I could've spent more time exploring interesting locales along the way, taking more interesting pictures for you. That's all....really...you can go now...go do your work...really there's nothing else!

Until next blog...