Allen from Slatington stayed at bike house over a year ago on a tour from New Orleans back home to Pa. Since then him and Neely have stayed in touch on Facebook, yesterday he picked us up and we drove to his place near Slatington and we took a great 50mi round trip ride along the Lehigh canal path to Jim Thorpe Pa formerly Mauch Chunk.
Allen's Rooster
Picture taken about 1/2 mi from Allen's place, on a hilltop with the Lehigh Gap in the distance, this was a big downhill too fast to take photos
Heading to the canal trail
Neely and the bike I was rode looking over the Lehigh on a nice slate formation
There was a classic car show going on at the Slatington airport so we checked it out, probably about 200+ cars.
My personal favorite classic American car the El Camino
Approaching the gap and palmerton, if you came through here 30 years ago it would have looked more like a post apocalyptic moonscape due to the environmental damage done by zinc mining.
House on the hill built in the 19th century and occupied by a civil war vet , supposed to be haunted someone lives there now. Picture doesn't really do it justice, very strange place for a house imagine having little kids there!
On the way to greyhound station we rode 3 people on the tandem with me standing on pegs, the tires gave me some wicked road rash that were healing quite well until I nailed them yesterday with a mountain bike pedal
Jim Thorpe Train station
A Japanese chin named panda
A large piece of anthracite coal
Penny farther at bike shop
We did a mini tour of Jim Thorpe, Neely and Allen decided. 50 mile ride wasn't good enough so we rode up a really steep and long hill. Was worth it though.
No wonder Jim Thorpe is so popular
A few shots from the ride back
Pa turnpike overhead
Lots of rafters on the Lehigh
A different kind of ghost bike
Bikes should be getting picked up by a trucker on tues, looking to fly out sometime mid week back to
FL and get this bike tour out of standby
Last edited by HankTheBank; 09-01-2014 at 10:45 AM.