York PA - October 3-5, 2008

Weekend highlight was a guided tour of the state-of-the-art Harley-Davidson factory in York. The area used to be a prosperous industrial area, but has fallen on hard times. They also have a great rail-to-trail system that we biked several times.
On quick side-trip to Hanover PA to take a tour of the Utz potato chip factory. Hanover is known as the Snack Food Capital, with several factories closeby......

The Harley-Davidson factory tour starts in the showroom, to whet your appetite!


Biker Mama, checking out a ride that could be hers for a mere $30k (Harley factory tour)



Part of York's effort at urban renewal is an "industrial flower" garden, with plants made from industrial machine parts from their early & more prosperous days.




Nice campsite......bike trail is just behind us. Spent the evening around campfire with two Mennonite couples from Lancaster County.....






Campsite was adjacent to converted rail-trail.....great flat ride!







Sunday morning Mass......3 mile bike ride from campground - nice, old church.....








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College Park, MD, Wash. DC metro area, United States
Lee is the manager of College Park Airport (world's oldest airport in continuous operation!), Kathy is Ex. Ass't. to Prez of a Fortune 500 company. Both Barth junkies, they enjoy restoring a '78, 24' Barth and exploring the mid-Atlantic area in it. Kathy was born & raised in the Washington DC area - Lee has been there for several decades......