18.42km. 98m ascent. 4h14 walk time DC is full of things to see and they are fairly well spaced out….. Our first job was to find 2 bike boxes to pack our bikes for the home journey. These we found at The Daily Rider who kindly gave us 2 with the original inside packaging material.…
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…
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…
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…
60.20km. 714m ascent. 3h23 ride time A relatively short day today to bring us to our Warmshowers host and time to visit Thomas Jefferson’s house. We’ll worth the visit. Stopped for coffee at Wyants Store, which has been there since the dawn of time and had a great conversation with the Liars Club. At first…
91.35 km. 934m ascent. 4h32 ride time 60 days continuous riding. Neither Stef nor I have ever done so much riding We are really in the rhythm and feel we could go on for ever at this pace or even more 😊 Easy day today through the beautiful Kentucky countryside with no wind at all…
Lyons to Hutchinson 50kmh wind with gusts to 82kmh. And guess in which direction? Full on headwind for us Up at 05:30 to avoid the heat and breakfast across the road from our motel at Scrambled Sam’s at 06:00 Then full on headwind. We couldn’t even average 15km/h against the wind. We took 2km stints…
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