One little mishap along the way in that when we pulled off the highway to get lunch as for crossing the parking lot I hear a horrible grinding sound that I think is the car. Next thing I know a man is running alongside our car banging on the window yelling, "Your car your bike is dragging!" At which point, I stopped the car in the middle of the parking lot, put on my flashers and spend about 10 minutes putting the bike back on and the rack.
Seems one of the bars that hold the tire in place came loose and the bike fell forward and was scraping on the ground. Luckily, no major damage and after lunch we continued our trip to Pennsylvania. Dealing with traffic past New York City was trying...
We are using HipCamp, as many of you know, basically an AirBnB for campers, and found a place that had very good reviews called, Duncan's Corn Maze! We arrived around 6 p.m. as the sun was going down, and it was getting chilly. Went to find the proprietor and hit a little gully crossing the driveway to their house, and heard a big crunch! I looked in my rearview to see the entire bike rack and the bikes sitting in the road not attached to the car. So as you can see, we are ironing out some major kinks with the bike racks. After much fuss getting the thing back together and dealing with the aftermath of driving all day fighting tractor trailers and New York City traffic, got the rack and bikes back on the car, and headed to our campsite.
By this time is very cold, like 40 degrees F, and we managed to get everything in place and set up before it got completely dark. There was a full moon that rose and gave us plenty of light for doing other minor chores that needed to happen before we could settling for a night sleep.
The owners, DJ and Loretta brought us a pizza and we all visited and got to know each other. Then we settled in for a nice night sleep in our lovely, and warm rooftop tent.
The farm that we stayed at is a working dairy farm and currently owned by fifth generation farmer. It was great getting to hear some of the history of the farm and the area. The corn maze is in its 19th year, and after talking with DJ and Loretta, discovered that they had planned to only do it for 20 years and then move on to something else. It was fun to sit around and brainstorm ideas for their next part of their life and business over delicious cheese pizza. After having coffee and breakfast we packed up everything and hit the road for West Virginia.
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Just had to bring the bikes. :)
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