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…
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…
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…
95.87km. 929m. 4h51 ride time Great name for a place Bumpass 🤣. We left the route for the last 25km to come to our Warmshowers host here at Bumpass, which is an old farm. The Virginia countryside was a little less inspiring today compared to the last days but a relatively flat, hot and humid…
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…
Eureka to Chanute. 103.99km. 438m ascent. 5h08 ride time With all the heatwave warnings we have been getting with 40C+ temperatures we decided to try to ride only before midday. We were up at 04:45 to leave in the twilight. We didn’t want to ride the on the highway in the dark as it was…
Today a day off. Just downhill from Wetmore to Pueblo. 54.95km. 259m ascent (644 descent). 2h35 ride time We arrived in Pueblo around 11:00 so went to the best coffee shop for a good coffee on Main Street before going to visit the Rosemount Victorian Museum. Very well preserved with about 95% original pieces in…
Guffy to Wetmore. 97.85km. 903m ascent. 4h54 ride time. Today we left Guffy after not sleeping at all well. We were both cold in the night and the military cots were not as comfortable as they looked. Nothing was open, not the bar, not the bakery and not the café…. This left us with about…
Missoula to Darby 96km. 490m ascent An easy and not particularly inspiring ride today, at least until we got onto the old Darby road after ~65km of riding a tarred but rough cycle track next to Highway 93 We picnicked off the highway with provisions bought on the road At least today we had no…