{"id":16194,"date":"2022-07-12T00:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T23:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/?p=16194"},"modified":"2022-07-12T00:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T23:48:28","slug":"lexington-to-afton-transamerica-day-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/07\/12\/lexington-to-afton-transamerica-day-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexington to Afton. TransAmerica day 72"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

86.47km. 1,435m. 5h04 ride time<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lexington <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We left the beautiful town of Lexington to ride 30km gently uphill to the big climb <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking back downstream <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Vesuvius was the big climb today. It\u2019s the toughest on the TransAmerica Trail, it starts with 3km at 11-18% then goes 3km more at 8-12%. Really enjoyed it though \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vesuvius <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the top we joined the Blue Ridge Parkway which runs along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Beautiful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blue Ridge Mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then down to overnight in the \u2018Cookie Lady\u2019s bike house. This is \u2018hostel\u2019. The Cookie Lady baked biscuits for cyclists from 1976 (when the TransAmerica Trail was started) until her death in 2012. The house is crammed with memorabilia and we found the cycle jersey of Wout Deboodt from Iedereen Beroemd. He was Stef\u2019s inspiration and the reason we we are here now. Stef wrote to him on FB (but no reply yet)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cookies Lady\u2019s house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The house, although an icon and worth a visit has virtually no facilities. No shower, no cooker, no beds and hasn\u2019t been cleaned since around 2012. They ask for a donation of $25 which is unreasonable (Spoke\u2019n in Mitchell was the BEST hostel with everything and also asked $25 which we gladly paid<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also took a short hike to the old railway tunnel which was rather a cool tunnel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old railway tunnel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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86.47km. 1,435m. 5h04 ride time We left the beautiful town of Lexington to ride 30km gently uphill to the big climb Vesuvius was the big climb today. It\u2019s the toughest on the TransAmerica Trail, it starts with 3km at 11-18% then goes 3km more at 8-12%. Really enjoyed it though \ud83e\udd29 At the top we…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[14,54,60,69,20],"class_list":["post-16194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trans-american-bike-trail","tag-bike","tag-holiday","tag-hostel","tag-mountain","tag-tat","category-22","description-off"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_0414.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16182,"url":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/07\/10\/daleville-to-lexington-transamerica-day-71\/","url_meta":{"origin":16194,"position":0},"title":"Daleville to Lexington.\u00a0TransAmerica day 71","author":"Piers","date":"2022-07-10","format":false,"excerpt":"78.92 km. 504m ascent. 4h01 ride time An easy day today to bring us to Lexington as we have the hardest climb ahead of us tomorrow: Vesuvius up to the Blue Ridge Parkway. 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