BACKROADS • JULY 2021
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words + images: Brian Rathjen • images: Backroads’ peeps
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s if on schedule the Wizards of the CDC began to lift mask mandates just days before Backroads’ first big rally, tour, road trip shindiggy thing of the new season was to begin. With the light at the end of the tunnel seemingly getting brighter by the minute, our first day on the road was greeted with spectacular sun and mild temperatures.
Day One • Joseph Ambler Inn, North Wales, PA Rather than do any sort of group ride this day we simply put out the word that the Spring Break would begin at the Joseph Ambler Inn, just west of the Delaware River and north of Philly in Pennsylvania. We were sure all would find their way and their own route down, or up, or across to North Wales and the Ambler.