Links to Days
Aug 28: VA -- Hanover, Yorktown, drive north Aug 29: NJ -- New Jersey, drive north Aug 30: CT, NY -- recuperate Aug 31: MA -- Boston |
August 28 -- from Hanover VA
This was a 74-mile bicycle pedal to the Yorktown Victory Monument. |
After unloading Jeff's stuff from the rental car they transferred Sal's belongings to Jeff 's car.
They returned the rental Chevy Spark (which had logged about 1,100 miles for the trip)
at the Westchester County Airport -- one of the few rental offices in the area
that was open on Sunday. At 5 PM Jeff dropped Sal off at his home in Connecticut,
then returned to his own home in New York around 7 PM, tired and not feeling well.
Sal returned home with less equipment than when he started, but many memories of this 240th anniversary tribute to the allied troops who had trudged the same roads in 1781. Along the way Sal and Jeff had discussed a few preliminary thoughts about writing a book to chronicle the Tour. In 1782 the French troops took four months to march from their winter encampment in Virginia to their last camp in the United States in Boston, Massachusetts. They had several three-day stops on the trip north to rest themselves and the oxen pulling the baggage wagons. The only water transport was across the Susquehanna River and the Hudson River. |
August 30 -- recuperation
This was a well-deserved day of rest for Sal and Jeff. Jeff felt much better. |