EAST FREEDOM, PENNSYLVANIA Seven years ago, almost to the day, I parked in East Freedom and rode up Blue Knob for the first time. Today’s circumstance would be different. I was traveling to visit my father in the hospital in Johnstown and I thought this would be a nice way to honor him. Needing gas, […]
ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA It was June, 2008, when I first rode “The Wall” in Altoona. I knew it was special then and in 2009, it became my “escape from cancer” place to ride. I have ridden it in spring, summer, and winter – but not fall. Interesting. We had been planning for Jacob’s Hero Ride, a […]
Altoona: With the long days of summer giving way to shorter days of approaching Fall, and with the author’s cancer treatment decision hanging over his head, he comes to the mountains for one last ride just to clear his head.
Rode over Blue Knob State Park and discovered the house where I had lived 50 years earlier.
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