Our campground is a couple miles from town, so to get food on our rest day we had to either walk or ride our bikes. I've had a rule about not riding my bike on my rest days (why? because I need a BREAK from that bike seat), but today I had to break it in order to not starve.
Barb, Darrell, and I got our tired legs to pedal us to town for breakfast. We ate at the Lincoln Diner.
After breakfast, Barb and I walked around the downtown area of Gettysburg for a bit. It's got so many great old, historic buildings. There are signs all around downtown that tell and show pictures of what happened at that certain location during the Civil War. Also, any building that was standing during that time also has a small plaque that says "Civil War, 1863." There's a lot to see in downtown Gettysburg.
After Barb and I got some food for both lunch (from Subway) and dinner (from a grocery store), we got back on our bikes for the slow ride back to camp. After lunch, Tracy, Janet, Barb, and I signed up for a 2-hour bus tour of the Gettysburg battlefields. I never knew that the fighting took place over such a large area or over so many days: July 1-3, 1863. The battlefields have been very well preserved, so you can almost imagine what it was like at the time. It was really interesting!
We got back to our cabin minutes, if not seconds, before a strong thunderstorm passed through the area. Some of the young guys were having fun in the rain, as well as zipping up tents of those who were not there. They probably saved a lot of things from getting wet!
Our cabin was called the Silverhorse Saloon. It was great fun!
Janet, posing on the roof!
My cabin mates and I had a great picnic dinner of bread, cheeses, meat, carrots with dip, salad, wine, apples, and cookies. Here are Tracy, Rosie, Barb, Janet, and Liz.
Rosie's posing with Janet's little Eastern Bluebird, EB.
Here we all are in front of our cabin. Don't ask me why we're posing like that! (Tracy, Liz, Rosie, Barb, me, Janet)
Thanks to Tony for taking pictures for all of us. He was juggling six cameras!
Here is the Half Century Club of the Big Ride. These are all the women who are nearly 50 or 50+. Barb, 55, Tracy, 50 on 8/10, Liz, 51, Rosie, 52, Janet, 52, Pauline, 50 on 8/28, and me, 50. They're a great group of women that I'm lucky to know!
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These smiles are wonderful. Your "crew" rocks.
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