Day #62
Thursday October 11, 2007
Staying in Gettysburg, PA
99 miles today (26,343 – 26,442)
11,875 miles total
33 states total
It was pretty cool when I woke up this morning at 5:30AM. After I got the water going for the coffee, I had to dig out my little ceramic heater to knock the chill out of the air. It’s barely 6” square and 6” tall, but it will sure do the job in the trailer of heating the space and drying the moisture out of the air. I’m considering hanging my one and only blanket from one of the roof struts, just to see if it will work better heating only my sleeping space. The temp tonight is to drop down in the mid 40’s.
Today I rode back east on US 30 to York, PA to visit the Harley Davidson factory.
I got some rain for about the last 15 minutes before getting there. It was enough to get me chilled. I arrived about 11AM, and had a 50 minute wait for the next tour. They issue tickets (free) and run the tours through with 15-20 visitors every 40 minutes or so. Very interesting! I’ve never worked in a factory setting, and the machines themselves were as much as interest to me as the products they produced. Half assembled Harleys swinging 12'-15' overhead on a conveyor is pretty neat looking! And the huge stamping equipment punching out and shaping fenders and gas tanks was impressive. I took special note of the lasers that cut through steel like butter. They were housed each in their own 10' x 10' room. Cool! I also went by the local dealer and toured a museum there.
I headed back to Gettysburg after 3PM. I had lunch in a Perkins about 4PM. I visited a local leather shop just outside of Gettysburg and bought Karla a pink license plate frame for her bike that said something like “Girls ride too! Get over it!” I gassed the bike up and headed back to camp for the night.
I had to start the heater even before dark and it was really getting cool.
It was pretty cool when I woke up this morning at 5:30AM. After I got the water going for the coffee, I had to dig out my little ceramic heater to knock the chill out of the air. It’s barely 6” square and 6” tall, but it will sure do the job in the trailer of heating the space and drying the moisture out of the air. I’m considering hanging my one and only blanket from one of the roof struts, just to see if it will work better heating only my sleeping space. The temp tonight is to drop down in the mid 40’s.
Today I rode back east on US 30 to York, PA to visit the Harley Davidson factory.
I got some rain for about the last 15 minutes before getting there. It was enough to get me chilled. I arrived about 11AM, and had a 50 minute wait for the next tour. They issue tickets (free) and run the tours through with 15-20 visitors every 40 minutes or so. Very interesting! I’ve never worked in a factory setting, and the machines themselves were as much as interest to me as the products they produced. Half assembled Harleys swinging 12'-15' overhead on a conveyor is pretty neat looking! And the huge stamping equipment punching out and shaping fenders and gas tanks was impressive. I took special note of the lasers that cut through steel like butter. They were housed each in their own 10' x 10' room. Cool! I also went by the local dealer and toured a museum there.
I headed back to Gettysburg after 3PM. I had lunch in a Perkins about 4PM. I visited a local leather shop just outside of Gettysburg and bought Karla a pink license plate frame for her bike that said something like “Girls ride too! Get over it!” I gassed the bike up and headed back to camp for the night.
I had to start the heater even before dark and it was really getting cool.
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