On to Pittsburgh

Day 32
Distance travelled: 89.2 miles
Time in saddle: 7hrs 10 mins
Overall distance travelled: 2873.6 miles

I felt a lot better this morning when I woke up. My knee seems to have healed...well it didn't hurt anymore. I left Old Washington and travelled on to Highway 22. It was very hilly and they went on for a while but it didn't really bother me...I just gritted my teeth and walked up the steep ones. I stopped at a fast food place just off the highway after about twenty miles. I was chatting to a couple of people who weer asking me about my journey. It's always nice to chat to people. It is definitely banjo country around here and I passed some pretty isolated places. One guy in the fast food place was so cross eyed I don't know how he managed to see where he was going. I caught him looking at me...or he could have been looking at the guy thirty feet to my right...weird. I was chased by at least five dogs today. I don't mind them chasing me as long as they don't catch me....they've got to do something, it's pretty quiet for them around there. I told them to bugger off, a phrase they are probably not used to...but it worked, perhaps they understood my Orford accent better than I expected. One in particular got really close but a size nine cycling shoe on its nose made it change it's mind...it actually sneezed after I caught it....must be allergic to me. the roads are quite confusing, or is it just me...I was going down the 22, which is apparently OK...It suddenly turned into freeway, which I can't cycle down. I chanced it for quite a while but I was worried that I would be pulled up again. I don't want to be arrested and spend the night in a cell with a bloke called Basher...Mummies and daddies all night and guess who would be mummy?
I left Ohio and cycled into West Virginia, for a short while. I eventually entered Pennsylvania and look forward to getting to the Hudson.
I decide to stop at a motel called Comfort Motel. It's very nice...a little more expensive but I'm fed up of staying in hit holes...I deserve a bit of pampering. I can print off a Google map for the next part of my journey and it's only eight miles outside Pittsburgh. I can cover that in just over half an hour.
It will probably get busier as I get in to New York. If anyone knows somebody who lives or is staying in New York and fancies greeting a tired Brit cyclist in about five days then please let me know. I will be finishing this part of my journey on Brooklyn Bridge, probably about one o'clock in the afternoon. I will let you know definite details over the next couple of days. Even if its only to say hello.