The day dawned sunny, but cool. Day two of leather jackets and chaps. Not a wardrobe I would have thought necessary in July; but that is why one packs all necessary riding gear. We begin the day be following route 83 to Jamestown, New York. Using my Garmin GPS, we were able to locate the Harley-Davidson store in Jamestown. T-shirt stop number one one the day. I find that as I ride my motorcycle I need a break every hour to 90 minutes just to clear my "focus". After a short stop at the Jamestown HD we continued our ride in Pennsylvania along route 62 to Warren, PA. It was there that we entered the Allegheny National Forest where we would spend the remainder of the day along route 948. The ride through the Allegheny was beautiful. The roads were not as curvy as I ex
pected. One of our interesting discoveries of the day was this little gas station - general store located at Russell Center. The gasoline pumps were vintage - they were the turn sprockets and only included two sprockets; so the pumps didn't register dollars. Hence the pump always read .XX. Upon entering the store, it was clear that the inventory was old and hadn't been updated in several years. The soda may have been more recently, but even that wasn't guaranteed. We entered the store hoping for hoagies. The clerk encouraged us to walk across the road to the ice cream stand where the food was "fresher". Her advice was taken. We did purchase chips to go with our hot dogs. During our break we planned our route to DeBois, Pa. We mounted up and continued along route 948 until we came to route 219 that took us into DeBois. As we entered town we found the local Harley-Davidson where we made our second Harley stop of the day. From there we sought out a hotel and a place for dinner before retiring for the evening.
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