Day 1 (Robinsville, NJ to Cooperstown, NY)

Day 1 began with the Phat Pac meeting at the Dunkin Doughnuts near Gerry's home in Robbinsville, NJ. The weather was fantastic after the last several days of rain. Not a cloud in the sky and dry! YES!! The plan was to meet in time to have a cup of coffee then it would be "feet up" at 8:00 to head to Route 29 following the Delaware River north. I arrived at about 7:15 and Gerry was already there with his new Honda Goldwing. Rich and Joe arrived moments later and after oogling Gerry's new bike with only 1,964 miles on the odometer and ragging him about having to wear a mask for the deal he struck we were ready to head off on our new adventure. The route called for us to follow the Delaware River north all the way to Hancock, NY. We started up along the NJ side on Rte 29, crossed over into PA at Stroudsburgh on I-80 then up route 209 to Milford. This stretch of Rte 209 was called the Ho-Chi-Minh trail by truckers during the hey days of CB radio in the 1960"s. The name came from the steady stream of trucks hauling cargo along a twisty road through the woods of the Pocono's. At the time this was the major connection between I-84 servicing New England and the major E/W corridor of I-80. In time truck traffic was limited and today is is a nice leisurely drive along the river through land designated as a park. We had a little fun following a Porsche club through this heavily patroled slow speed section of highway. It is always nice to have some "flashy jail bait" running in front of us. At Hancock, we took Rte 10 to 28 and into Cooperstown, NY which is the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Since we were too late to get into the museum, we will do that in the morning. Cooperstown is a nice quaint little town and there are plenty of places to stay and dine. They host a lot of baseball tournaments here at a huge facility of well manicured ball parks south of town. We elected to have dinner at Coley's Tavern. The wings were great, we highly recommend them.

Here is our motley crew in front of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Tomorrow we will visit the museum and then head out on Day 2 and Rutland, VT.