Girls' Bike Trip, May 2011

Here are some pics from our 60 mile day trip from Pittsburgh to Ohiopyle to kick off the May long weekend. The girls and I left just after 7am from our home in Pittsburgh, cycled for a bit, caught a bus to keep us off the worst roads on route to the trail, then cycled from Dusquesne to Ohiopyle along the Great Allegheny Passage! (In May, the trail wasn't yet completed to Homestead; it's still not complete all the way to Pittsburgh, but they're working on it.) Papa picked us up around 6:30, so it was a long day, but well worth it! Highlights included biking over the bridges from Connellsville to Ohiopyle in a gentle rain, with the sunset just beginning. The low point of the day was when I realized we had inadvertently stopped at a completely bee infested playground! (Not the playground featured in the pics--another one.) We were really fortunate to escape without being stung!

Here's us at Connelsville. No pic at Ohiopyle, unfortunately, as the torrential rain had started and we had to get the bike on our car and get to our campsite in Maryland.

Katie missed out on our icecream stop! :( But we didn't tell her, so she'll live...

The railroad theme of this playground is appropriate, given that we were cycling along a trail that used to be a railroad along the Youghiogheny River. There's a functional railroad along the otherside of the river: we heard and saw many, many trains that day!