Day twenty six, Falling Waters:day ride out of Frostburg, MD

Today was our last day in Pennsylvania before heading to the Mountains of the Blue Ridge in Virginia. Mark and Tracey we’re leaving Kim’s up in State College and meeting us at Johnstown, so the first half of the day, Frostburg, Up the 96 and through Blue Knob State Park, was actually a ride pulled out of the PA chapter of the best motorcycle rides in the Appalacians.

Needless to say that author nailed another very good ride, straight out of Frostburg, MD the scenery was nice and all the way up to Sidman, we had a mix of dairy and beef farms, State parks and the like. I saw more farms today with Kiwi style fencing and even saw a herd of Red Devon and a couple Hereford mobs out paddock grazing just like home. I won,t post any pics as you’ll be over all our Pennsylvania farm land pics. Needless to say this was a great ride, very little traffic for a Saturday.

We picked up Mark and Tracey, had a coffee and a bite at Johnstown, managed to exit the town without being robbed or having anything stolen, just saying……………….then headed south on the 219 and the 653 to finish up on a cool road between Somerset and Normalville.

At Normalville we turned onto Mill Run Road, also called the Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway which runs down to the 40 at Farmington. The highlight of the day has to be our pre-booked 1 hour tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece at Falling Waters, what a pleasure to have the tour. I know I have already mentioned the guy was a genius after we had a look at his design of the Guggenheim in New York, but this house, designed in the mid 1930,s for the Kaufman family confirms the guy is a genius. Check out the pics below, you would think this might be a 1960’s or even 1970’s house, but no, designed in 1935 and built 1937 to 39. Absolutely amazing and well worth the $30 entry fee. Crowds there and the place is packed all the time.

Falling waters tour the highlight of the day, Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway pick of today’s rides. Off to Virginia tommorrow.