Day 2: Tuxedo, NY - Hawley, PA
We were up and out the door early this morning tackling two large hills before 9:00 am. Today was the first time a lot of the Illinois riders have seen hills with Illinois being relatively flat and the day did not get any easier after 9:00 am with the hills continuing throughout the day. We stopped for lunch near a creek in Port Jervis, NY where we enjoyed Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches with fruit and Alex decided to go for a swim in the creek. After lunch the fun continued with more hills until finding a nice reward at the top of our final climb in the form of ice cream! With 65 miles done we stopped to treat ourselves at Costa’s Family Fun Park. After we finished our ice cream Sehee enjoyed a ride on the 25 cent Alligator ride before we all got together for a group photo with the staff of the ice cream shop. (A big Thank you to Costa’s for your generous donation in support of our cause!)
After departing Costa’s the ride into our destination of Hawley, PA was fairly easy. When we reached town we met up with the rest of the team at the town park where they were waiting while trying to reach the church where we were planning to stay. After numerous failed attempts trying to reach someone at the church Jon had gone to the local library. It was there he met an amazingly generous woman named Florence who offered to let us camp at her cabin. Not only did she let us camp but she got the local grocery store to donate food and then made us an amazing meal. After setting up camp we bathed in the garden hose and washed our clothes in our big plastic bins stringing clothes line under the back porch to hand our wet clothes on. It was cold but it does feel good to be clean after two days of riding. Tomorrow I expect more hills as we head to Tunkhannock which is just west of Scranton. Here in Hawley is about the closest to home I will be for the rest of the summer.
We were up and out the door early this morning tackling two large hills before 9:00 am. Today was the first time a lot of the Illinois riders have seen hills with Illinois being relatively flat and the day did not get any easier after 9:00 am with the hills continuing throughout the day. We stopped for lunch near a creek in Port Jervis, NY where we enjoyed Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches with fruit and Alex decided to go for a swim in the creek. After lunch the fun continued with more hills until finding a nice reward at the top of our final climb in the form of ice cream! With 65 miles done we stopped to treat ourselves at Costa’s Family Fun Park. After we finished our ice cream Sehee enjoyed a ride on the 25 cent Alligator ride before we all got together for a group photo with the staff of the ice cream shop. (A big Thank you to Costa’s for your generous donation in support of our cause!)
After departing Costa’s the ride into our destination of Hawley, PA was fairly easy. When we reached town we met up with the rest of the team at the town park where they were waiting while trying to reach the church where we were planning to stay. After numerous failed attempts trying to reach someone at the church Jon had gone to the local library. It was there he met an amazingly generous woman named Florence who offered to let us camp at her cabin. Not only did she let us camp but she got the local grocery store to donate food and then made us an amazing meal. After setting up camp we bathed in the garden hose and washed our clothes in our big plastic bins stringing clothes line under the back porch to hand our wet clothes on. It was cold but it does feel good to be clean after two days of riding. Tomorrow I expect more hills as we head to Tunkhannock which is just west of Scranton. Here in Hawley is about the closest to home I will be for the rest of the summer.
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