Lancaster County is a great place to ride a bike since there are so many roads that go in so many directions you can usually avoid busy thoroughfares and stay on quiet, lightly traveled roads.
The price to pay is endless views of cornfields, pastures, soybeans, trees, livestock, and well-tended farms -- and hills.
While about a third of the county is reasonably flat, the northern and southern thirds are an up-and-down array of hills of different grades -- some are sharp, steep, twisting, others long, slow, grinding.
Tandems are at a disadvantage on uphills but can usually use some inertia if there's a downhill preceding. So I like to ride a new route solo to see if it will be suitable for the tandem. Yesterday I rode a loop south of home, today I re-visited a route I tried a couple of weeks ago.
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