Route planning...

Once again we are planning on leaving for PA in a couple weeks.  I sure hope this time works out...

My knee is doing well...and now I am trying to strengthen it for the upcoming tour.

I am also trying to figure out what roads and trails we will be riding.  

I bought a PA topo map and cut up the pages...

This way they will fit into a Zipoc bag and be a convenient size.

Thanks to Google-maps trip planner (for cycling) I discovered Pine Creek Rail Trail, and thanks to a very helpful bikeforums.net contributor I learned about PA bike routes.
We will be riding along route 16 in New York most of the way to Pennsylvania.  It is supposed to be a decent cycling route...we shall find out...
In PA we will be taking the Pine Creek Rail Trail and possibly some of PA bike route 'J'.  I would like to take the bike route, but to get to it we would need to travel along a 4-lane.  I don't even know if it is accessible to bicycles...so I have another route possibility mapped out.
I'm not really looking forward to narrow, curvy, PA roads, but as long as no-one creams us, it will be fun...
I am definitely ready for a break from this crazy, dirty, noisy city that I live in, and go where there are open fields, contented cows, dense forests, rambling streams, and shy wildlife.
Don't get me wrong....I want to meet people along the way....and I know the country isn't all pastoral...I just want some refreshing time in the quietness of nature.