OTET day 3: So much fun from Millersburg to Mount Vernon

The trails keep coming!

This was an easy day on the Ohio to Erie Trail, just over 40 miles and again almost all on trails.

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OTET day 2: A metric century from Akron to Millersburg

TIL that Amish teens are just like teenagers anywhere.

Who’s faster — us or the buggy?

TIL why most people bicycle the Ohio to Erie Trail from south to north, that the Amish love their e-bikes and that Amish teens cruise in their buggies while listening to thumping music.

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Ohio to Erie Trail day 1: Cleveland to Akron

A 40-mile day almost exclusively on trails. Who needs a map?

OMG, they’re not kidding that the 326-mile Ohio to Erie Trail is mostly on trail, far from cars.

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Ready to start biking across Ohio: Pierogies, kielbasa, ‘weird beer’ — check, check, check

We’re biking the Ohio to Erie Trail in reverse — from Cleveland to Cincinnati.

Five of us are in Cleveland, ready to start biking the Ohio to Erie Trail — or should I say Lake Erie to the Ohio River?

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I used the Lawrence Hopewell Trail to bike to Hopewell Valley Vineyards

Just too early for pizza and wine.

It’s no secret that I love the Lawrence Hopewell Trail and all its variety. So after last weekend’s bike-and-wine adventure in the other direction, I thought I’d try another winery. And I realized the LHT could get me most of the way there.

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George Washington slept here: a bike ride on the D&L Trail from Scudders Falls to Bristol and back

Summerseat is one of those forgotten mansions.

It’s Memorial Day, so this seems appropriate.

I know, George Washington spent a lot of time in New Jersey and Pennsylvania during the Revolution, so he slept in plenty of places. (And in the tent, of course).

But this was a new one for me: Summerseat, up on a hill not far from the Delaware River in Morrisville, PA.

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I biked to Freehold for the Henry Hudson Trail and ended up in a brewery

The new section of the Henry Hudson Trail in Freehold could open any day.

Time for an update on the Henry Hudson Trail.

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Yes, I tried a peanut butter beer on this bike ride

We relied on the D&R Canal towpath for most of our bike ride to Ashton Brewing in Middlesex Borough.

I’m nominating Ashton Brewing in Middlesex Borough as the place to find some really weird — as in unusual, in the nicest way — beers.

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A bike ride to a new brewery just off the Lawrence Hopewell Trail

The quest for “weird” beer continues.

We braved the mud and the wind — oh that wind! — to reach the Druery Brewery using the D&R Canal towpath and the Lawrence Hopewell Trail.

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New Jersey’s Henry Hudson Trail is expanding

For you TL;DR types, this 0.4-mile addition into the center of Freehold could be open in two months, so the end of April.

February temps in the 60s … had to get outside. And part of that included checking out the progress on the extension of the Henry Hudson Trail into Freehold.

For you TL;DR types, this 0.4-mile addition could be open in two months, so the end of April.

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