We stayed at the Big Bear Lodge right on the lake where Tim and Justin Michael took a dip in the cold waters.  We rode the GAP (Great Alleghany Passage) trail from Frostburg to a long tunnel just inside the PA state line.  We ate twice at the Mountain Brewing Co. nearby.  We celebrated Eliza’s…

We stayed in 2 cottages side by side on the North Fork of the Cheat River, east of Elkins, WV known as Rivers Edge and Siddelbloom. We rode the Allegheny Highlands Trail. The big meal out was out into coal mining region of central WV to s small hamlet called Helvetia (the Latin name for…

We stayed at Mac’s Shack and had to go back across the mountain to ride the Greenbriar Trail starting at Cass, WV.  The main night out was at the resort restaurant at the top of the mountain where we saw portions of a JMU/WVU football game where the crowd clearly sided with the “home” team. …

We stayed at the Trails End 2-house rental just across the road from the end/beginning of the 35 mile trail known as the Virginia Creeper Trail.  The trip down in the pickup with Sharon, Eliza and me featured an incident on I-81 where I was cut off by another vehicle and I uttered “you jerk”…

Lodging was a very nice 5 bedroom house, each with it’s own bathroom, one of the nicest places we have ever stayed in, at the Coolfont Mountainside Development just outside of Berkeley Springs.  We attempted to ride bikes on the Western Maryland RR Trail at Hancock, MD, just across the Potomac River, but rain ruined…

We stayed at another very large, spacious home on a hillside overlooking a large pond south of Forest, a suburb of Lynchburg, as nice as any we’ve stayed at.  We went back to Lynchburg to ride the James River Trail which wasn’t all that long so we added to that several short urban trails within…

We stayed at a large house called Eastover Plantation on the James River which bordered right on the river although on a very tall and steep bank. We took a vehicle ferry across the James River to land at Jamestown settlement on the other side. We then rode our bikes on the Capital Trail (all…

We found another very nice and spacious cabin at Willis, VA called Creekside Cabin. We briefly attended the bluegrass jam session at the Floyd General Store, a Friday night occurrence that brings fans from many miles away.  The bike trail was the New River Trail for which we had to travel several miles to get…