July 17, 2008
Bikers come through on the Transamerica Route established in 1976
The TransAmerica bike riders are part of the summer tourism business coming through Botetourt County. Luckily for Thriftway Market in Troutville, they stop and make purchases.
This couple, Krystin Bergman and Nick Boekelhide, is heading for Oregon. They're on their honeymoon. They left Yorktown five days ago and and hope to be in California to begin graduate school in Pasadena in September. Bland Painter, the proprietor of Thriftway Market, keeps a log book for hikers and bikers to sign on the front checkout. He said: "We are lucky that both have to come past us on the bike route and Appalachian Trail."
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