Today, we made it to Conshohocken, a suburb of Philadelphia. We are closing in on our goal. Not a lot of pictures today, because the ride was not really that remarkable…. basically sights that we all see every day. As we approached civilization, we first passed through farmlands, and fancy estates built on farmlands of the past. We graduated to modern subdivisions, where our biking maps had us turning left and right, weaving our way through mazes of residential streets. As we approached Conshohocken, we passed a lot of industrial parks, school complexes and businesses. The roads became busy with limited room for riding. We encountered many more stop lights, stop signs, and roads that were difficult to cross than any other day on our ride.
We finished today’s ride relatively early and grabbed an afternoon lunch at the Lucky Dog Gastropub in Conshohocken. Celebrated our second to last day with a couple of beers for a job well done. Then, we biked a couple blocks to the most comfortable night’s stay of the trip, the Residence Inn, a couple of blocks away.
The kids, Mike and Christine, who live only 30 minutes away, came by to visit and let us spend some time visiting with our new granddaughter, Ryleigh (4 months). We had a wonderful night with pizza and beer, and look forward to getting to their house tomorrow to spend a few days getting caught up and getting to know Ryleigh. We are truly blessed to have this family, and to have the opportunity to participate in this adventure.
Looking forward to tomorrow’s ride. We have 17 more miles down the Schuylkill River Trail, which will take us right into Phoenixville.
So close! What a great adventure.
It is even better now that we are done. LOL.
Oh, yeah, Conshohocken is not exactly filled with natural beauty! We are about 45 min from there, in northern Delaware. But I hadn’t heard of the Lucky Dog Gastropub, so we’ll have to check that out!
I didn’t realize you were new grandparents!! Congratulations!
Sue
Thanks Sue. The Residence Inn is right down by the river on the bike path, which was nice. It’s the same place we stayed when Mike first came down to Philly to look at Drexel.