Day nineteen, williamsport pa to east stroudsburg, pa

Today was just another one of those a to b rides where there was no great rides but we just had to get to East Stroudsburg, the meeting point where we catch up with Mark and Tracey riding across from Newark.

rather than take the interstate all the way we thought we would break it up with a ride across the PA 118, pretty much from Hughesville to Dallas. This turned out to be a pleasant break from interstate riding, sneaking across below the base of Ricketss Glen state park.

Getting toward Dallas, Horse was getting scratchie for a coffee and he and Marie spotted a wee coffee sign on a building at the same time, in a wee village called Lehman on the 118.

Inside the Lehman Mercantile, we met the owner Janelle Hines. Jeanelle took a while to pick up on our accent but then made us the nicest espresso coffee we have consumed for a while. A lovely lady, she gave us a bit of local history, how her and hubby had restored the old grocery store and turned it into the treasure it is today. They live on a wee farm across the road and she has a soft spot for injured animals that she nurses back to health. The Lehman Mercantile was full of treasures and a a great shop to look around in. Anyone travelling across the 118, will do themselves a dis- service by not stopping here for a coffee and a yarn with Jeanelle.

The rest of the trip after Lehman was a bit more built up and the temp started climbing, hitting a high of 38 degrees just after we arrived in East Stroudsburg.

Mark and Tracey had arrived about half an hour earlier and had a good run across from Newark, apart from getting held up closer to Stroudsburg by an accident. It wa s great to see them and up the team size to four bikes 8 up.

Tommorrow is Sunday, so hoping the traffic down to DC might not be too heinous, and it’s also the last day of the sizzling hot weather alert, its supposed to ease off next week. Fingers crossed as it was too hot for comfort today.