38.74km. 294m ascent. 2h33 ride time Patrice offered to give us a guided cycle tour of Richmond, something Phini usually does but he had just undergone surgery and was not allowed to ride! We had a great ride around the sights of Richmond and Richmond is a city where I could live! They have the…
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101.42km. 543m ascent. 4h42 ride time Our journey draws to an end as we make our way up to Washington DC to catch our flight back to Belgium. We have a whole day in Richmond, mainly because we were way too early in Yorktown and we have time to spare. Changing our ticket is prohibitively…
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13.44km. 68m ascent. 3h10 walking time No ride today but a foot tour of the old colonial town, probably the world’s largest living museum! Williamsburg is beautiful and a lot of the houses are original. All commerce is kept out of the town so you have to go to the edge to get a coffee…
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34.65km 131m ascent. 1h36 ride time A short ride today to bring us up to Williamsburg so we can spend the day visiting tomorrow. Not a great route through the built up areas but not bad. We had a great stay over with our Warmshowers hosts, as almost always we had plenty of common ground…
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75.64km. 219m 3h46 ride time Still staying in the fantastic church hostel in Yorktown, but we didn’t want to outstay our welcome and give cyclists a bad name so we got a Warmshowers overnight in Newport News and rode down to Fort Monroe which is the biggest fort on the Atlantic coast. It looks out…
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84.05km. 435m ascent 3h29 ride time Today we went back up the Colonial Parkway to Jamestown which is just below Williamsburg on the James River. This museum is huge and explains the early settlement of the British arriving in America and their interaction with the native Americans. It is really well done but the indoor…
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Here is a random list of things which struck me as being ‘only in the USA’. There is no order of importance, just. things which struck me as odd or different… FriendlyAmericans are incredibly friendly! The image we (I) have in Europe of Americans: Fat, camera toting, loud, badly dressed and generally unpleasant is absolutely…
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21.39 km. 149m ascent. 1h07 ride time The last leg of our epic TransAmerica Trail, just 21 km along the beautiful parkway. Quite fitting to end the TransAmerica Trail after 76 days as it was made in ‘76 and is named ‘Route 76’ We have ridden 7,131 Km and climbed 59,500m on this trip We…
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This was a great idea that saved us a lot of hassle when Stef had 2 broken spokes A mobile bike repair. Jimmy’s mobile bike repair He came out to the motel to fix the wheel with his mobile workshop and only charged $35 for the job
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80.35km. 312m ascent. 3h42 ride time Super easy ride today bringing us so close to the end of our trip across the USA. (We still have 310km to ride up to Washington DC, but that is an extra) Most of the ride was on the dedicated cycle path and we have not met as many…
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