Day 9 - Family, Friends, Food, Fun, and Finally...

Day 9 - Pound Ridge NY to Danville, PA
Miles:

This is THE DAY we'd been looking forward to, planning for and dreaming about for more than 4 years. Today we will visit our 50th state on our motorcycle and complete the Quinlans' Great 50-States-by-Motorcycle Adventure.

...and this was the day it chose to rain for the first time on this leg of the trip. We made it an hour or so before the storms started, but had to stop and put on the rain gear.

Luckily the rain subsided enough to get our picture - a very bittersweet picture - of our final state, New Jersey.

We congratulated ourselves and each other on making this quest, then as the storms started to break up, continued on into Pennsylvania, where our Sturgis friend Tommy and his girlfriend, Linette were waiting for us.

They showed us around the area and we rode some great, scenic roads through coal country on our way to Tommy's hometown of Danville.

Tommy belongs to a motorcycle club (of which we are honorary members). He's talked about the club and the work they've done on the clubhouse for years - and we finally got to see it.

We were impressed. The Susquehanna Motorcycle Club is a great place where we sat and easily chatted with new friends from the club.

We moved on to a couple more establishments and then said good-bye to our host and hostess for the day, knowing that we'd see them again in a few weeks in South Dakota.