For pretty much the whole morning Edward took me around Pittsburgh, helping me mail home more clothes and maps, go to REI for new riding gloves and other asundry stops. After a light breakfast, Edward showed me the way to the GAP trail and off I pedaled. Ten twenty miles down the path, I met up with three riders like myself. We rode another thirty miles to Connellsville where the town has built lean-to dwellings for us to sleep. No showers on sight so we scrubbed up in the Youghegheny River right next to us.. The water was clean and cool, just right for us road worn riders.
John, one of the riders, has bicycled through India, Vietnam and Kenya. Each time he has hired a local company to provide a SAG vehicle and set up places to stay. Real inexpensive which always sparks my interest. Traveling solo in second and third world countries can be dicey so it may be wise for me to take the SAG approach.
Tomorrow, we will cover another sixty miles but in the middle we plan to divert to see Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water house, a very cool building which I have always wanted to see.
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