Last I wrote we just started our ride on the Great Allegheny Passage Trail. We spent two nights at the Hilton in Homestead. It is a nice hotel right on the trail about six miles south of Point Park. Point park is the place with the fountain where two rivers come together and where most riders of the whole GAP trail start or end their rides. We had a whole day to explore Pittsburgh by bike. Our shuttle driver had told us that besides being the city of steel manufacturing, Pittsburgh is the city of bridges. With two rivers converging there, and highways and trains it is understandable and very evident as we rode around the city. We went to the Science Museum and enjoyed a planetarium show. I always learn something at these things. Like the zodiac constellations are all in a row across the sky. All the other things I learned, I quickly forgot. My brain isn't the sponge... I was going to say isn't the sponge it used to...
Greetings from Pittsburgh, PA... the city of bridges. We got a shuttle from Wheelzup bike shop in Cumberland, MD. It took close to three hours to get us up to the Golden Triange, which is the official start of the Great Allegheny Passage Trail, the driver said. We were the only couple on the shuttle! And he didn't pick up anyone to take back to Cumberland. We rode the rest of the way up to Point Park where two rivers come together and which is the spot bikers usually start and end their rides on the GAP. The GAP meets up in Cumberland with the C & O Canal Trail that goes to Washington, DC. I did both trails with Joan in... 2021? Here is a picture of Steve in Point Park. And below is a picture of where we got on the trail at the Golden Triangle. When you ride fully loaded, people often ask where you are headed, and where did you come from. At Point Park a couple rode up to us and asked. They have ridden the trail a cou...