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Valley Forge National Military Park is an ideal place to ride your bicycle as it has miles of bike paths over rolling hills.  Unfortunately a rainstorm made it impossible on the day I was there.  So after seeing the museum  and watching the movie I drove around part of the park where they have reconstructed timber huts like the soldiers built in the winter of 1777-78, Washington's headquarters, redoubts with cannons, and a memorial and statue.

The next day was drier and I cycled through the hills of central Pennsylvania from the campground to Intercourse and Bird-in-Hand (yes these are names of two towns) for a round trip of over 33 miles.  I had to maneuver around horse manure along the low traffic farm roads.  The Amish have two types of horses, thorobred trotters for their buggies and large husky horses for the plows.  Menonites use tractors and trucks.  I saw many horses and buggies on these roads as well as the road next to my campsite. Once I heard a horse and buggy gaining on me from behind as we were going up a hill. I pulled over to the side and told the Amish in the buggy that the horse was much stronger on the hills than I.  They laughed and waved. On the way back I was passed by a young Amish lady on a bicycle.  She had a long skirt on. The bike had fenders, was heavy than  my bike, and she had a box of b read on the back.  For miles I tried to catch her.  Finally just before the campground going downhill, I caught her and told her she was in excellent shape, she laughed obviously enjoying the competition.