I actually have a new plan for today. What a surprise.
This morning is overcast and the wind is blowing. Pretty hard today and if course it is mostly a head wind. The plan is to put my head down, lean into the wind and put in as many miles as possible today.
I am still riding along Lake Erie and it is rough seas out there due to the wind. Would not want to be sailing today. Before the day is over, I might regret riding a bike today too.
Around 11:30 I started thinking about lunch. There was a town just ahead named Geneva-On-The-Lake. With a name like Geneva I thought it might have some up-scale nice bistro or cafes. Boy was I wrong. It was a tourist town with row upon row of cheap food joints and hundreds and hundreds of motorcycles. I couldn’t ride out of that town fast enough. The bad news was that it was another 10 mikes to Ashtabula, the next town, about 45 minutes and I was starving.
Just outside if tie , i stopped at a roadside fruit stand and bought a couple of ripe peaches. Next I found a nice place after only 7 miles! And they were known for their pie. And of course everybody knows by now that I like pie! I had the peach pie of course.
Fueled up, I continued bucking the headwind for the town of Erie. To get there, I needed to cross the state line.
My stay in Pennsylvania would not be long. I am riding through this little sliver that rubs along the lake, only about 45 miles.
I got to Erie, PA around 7:00. I stayed at a campground near the port. It was pretty nice. The spotlessly clean showers were the best part. Some of the people staying at the campground were interested in my trip. They ended up bringing me a cocktail that I enjoyed with my dinner. That was greatly appreciated!
It was a long day. I put in 80 miles into the wind. Then on top of all that, a storm was supposed to hit in the middle of the night. I figured I could ride out any storm easy enough and if the rain and wind continued during the next day, I could just pack up and head for a motel in town to dry out.
So I hit the sack waiting for the storm to hit and seeing what tomorrow would bring.