"Rock out with my what?": Rob and JJ go Biking

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05/20/2005 - 05/28/2005 (all times PDT)

Day 0: Arlington VA
05/20/2005 8:30pm full size | details gear prep in Arlington the night before leaving	05/20/2005 8:30pm full size | details RE bags and bike	05/20/2005 8:45pm full size | details Applying reflective tape
Day 1: Arlington VA to Fredericksburg VA (85 mi)
05/21/2005 04:45am full size | details Setting out	05/21/2005 09:54am full size | details First stop: somewhere, VA	05/21/2005 09:55am full size | details mmmm ... po taters.
05/21/2005 11:48am full size | details	05/21/2005 2:02pm full size | details JJ learns to clean his drivetrain	05/21/2005 3:35pm full size | details Downtown Fredricksburg VA ... relentlessly quaint
Day 2: Fredericksburg VA to Ivy VA (80 mi)
05/22/2005 07:43am full size | details Yes, that is an uphill.	05/22/2005 07:44am full size | details Lake Anna	05/22/2005 08:17am full size | details About to turn west into a stiff headwind ... JJ looks pensive.
05/22/2005 08:17am full size | details	05/22/2005 08:23am full size | details VA farm	05/22/2005 09:13am full size | details more pensive JJ
05/22/2005 09:17am full size | details more manic Eikel	05/22/2005 09:41am full size | details Navigator Lenhart points the way to the Blue Ridge	05/22/2005 10:09am full size | details Dirt road ... NOT marked as such on map.
05/22/2005 10:09am full size | details	05/22/2005 10:10am full size | details Dirt.	05/22/2005 1:25pm full size | details Monticello
05/22/2005 2:36pm full size | details UVA
Day 3: Ivy VA to Lexington VA (77 mi)
05/23/2005 04:56am full size | details Morning in Ivy, VA (not shown: amused Emily)	05/23/2005 06:09am full size | details climbing to Rockfish Gap
05/23/2005 06:29am full size | details Onward and southward	05/23/2005 07:19am full size | details Overlooking the Shenandoah	05/23/2005 07:45am full size | details
05/23/2005 07:46am full size | details	05/23/2005 09:43am full size | details water break on the Blue Ridge Parkway	05/23/2005 10:15am full size | details No hands
05/23/2005 10:38am full size | details
Day 4: Lexington VA to New Market VA (87 mi)
05/24/2005 04:13am full size | details Setting out from Lexington VA	05/24/2005 05:50am full size | details Virginia: birthplace of Presidents
05/24/2005 08:58am full size | details Nor'easter	05/24/2005 08:58am full size | details JJ contemplates Coca-Cola branding strategy	05/24/2005 11:37am full size | details screaming headwind (not pictured: Eikel flats in the rain)
05/24/2005 11:37am full size | details Storm clouds over the Shenandoah (and screaming headwind)	05/24/2005 12:04am full size | details Representative portrait of the many livestock observed during the trip.	05/24/2005 12:05am full size | details
05/24/2005 4:33pm full size | details OUTSTANDING fried chicken. So good we came back for breakfast.
Day 5: New Market VA to Harpers Ferry WV (98 mi)
05/25/2005 05:23am full size | details The best way to start another rainy day: with a flat.	05/25/2005 05:24am full size | details
05/25/2005 06:45am full size | details Peter Muhlenberg. Enough said.	05/25/2005 09:17am full size | details lunch in Stephens City VA	05/25/2005 10:36am full size | details Random historical site
05/25/2005 10:36am full size | details	05/25/2005 10:56am full size | details Shenandoah River	05/25/2005 10:57am full size | details Riding alongside the Shenandoah River
05/25/2005 11:38am full size | details The closest we could fine to a Welcome To West Virginia sign	05/25/2005 11:38am full size | details	05/25/2005 12:40am full size | details Wet, pensive JJ (Charles Town WV)
05/25/2005 12:41am full size | details	05/25/2005 12:41am full size | details ... drinkin' that 7-11 coffee ...	05/25/2005 1:30pm full size | details Muddy JJ. (Not pictured: Eikel wipeout on railroad tracks).
05/25/2005 3:57pm full size | details JJ: first beer of the trip
Day 6: Harpers Ferry WV to Antietam MD to Harpers Ferry (37 mi)
05/26/2005 06:49am full size | details John Brown's Fort	05/26/2005 06:49am full size | details
05/26/2005 06:53am full size | details Confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac at Harpers Ferry WV	05/26/2005 06:57am full size | details Harpers Ferry	05/26/2005 07:00am full size | details
05/26/2005 09:58am full size | details Climbing out of Harpers Ferry toward Antietam	05/26/2005 11:24am full size | details If I ever need to go on a bender in Sharpsburg MD I know where to go.	05/26/2005 1:58pm full size | details Burnside's Bridge (note eminently fordable river)
05/26/2005 2:56pm full size | details Amtrak crossing Potomac at Harpers Ferry	05/26/2005 2:56pm full size | details
Day 7: Harpers Ferry WV to Hanover PA (77 mi)
05/27/2005 06:30am full size | details Looking back toward Harpers Ferry
05/27/2005 06:30am full size | details Better photo of Harpers Ferry in the distance	05/27/2005 08:23am full size | details Covered bridge, Frederick County MD	05/27/2005 10:08am full size | details Self explanatory
05/27/2005 10:52am full size | details Lincoln address memorial at Gettysburg	05/27/2005 2:44pm full size | details Changing a tire	05/27/2005 3:09pm full size | details The blue tire ruins the whole color scheme
Day 8: Hanover PA to Philadelphia PA (135 mi)
05/28/2005 07:46am full size | details Crossing the Susquehanna (not pictured: Eikel flats again)	05/28/2005 3:11pm full size | details Philadelphia (not pictured: thunder, lightning, screaming wind, Eikel wipeout)	05/28/2005 3:11pm full size | details Kelly Drive
05/28/2005 3:11pm full size | details Boathouse Row	05/28/2005 3:12pm full size | details	05/28/2005 3:12pm full size | details This was JJ's view of most of the trip: DRAFTING!
05/28/2005 3:20pm full size | details Art Museum (not actually the Rocky steps)	05/28/2005 3:28pm full size | details final stop: 2400 Chestnut	empty