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Fort Monroe has an old Fire Station just in front of the main entrance and this has been converted into a caf\u00e9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They have excellent coffee and ice cream. We had coffee and a snack on the way in to Fort Monroe and an ice cream on the way out. (it was very hot again)<\/p>\n\n\n\n After walking the entire wall of Fort Monroe, we made our way up to Newport News to our Warmshowers host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. 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