![]() Day two was a little better than day one. We got the day started pretty early from Plymouth and arrived in Rocky Mount about 2:30. It's much better to get up early, beat the heat, the traffic and most importantly the winds. We grabbed some lunch and ate it under a highway overpass (see pictures.) When we arrived in Rocky Mount we were starving but didn't want to eat dinner quite yet so we road our bikes down the road from the Motel 6 we stayed in to the Krispy Kreme and split 6 assorted donuts. After we killed those we road up the street about 50 more feet to Wendy's and both got a frosty. We're finding that we can just eat whatever we want and as much of it as possible. Pictures from Day 2
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Pictures from Day 1![]() Well we are one day away from jumping on the bikes and pedaling our way across the US one mile at a time. As pumped as we are for the trip to start, it almost came to a grinding halt before it even started. We were at Kitty Hawk Kites this afternoon trying our hand at a little hang gliding and don't think I will be getting my pilots license any time soon (watch the video below). We took the beginning hang gliding class, which takes us to the top of the giant sand dunes at the Outer Banks and fly at low heights WITH the help of an instructor. As you will see from the video, flight #1 goes just fine, but flight #2 comes to a very unexpected sudden halt. The only casualty turned out to be the shin, but fortunately I made the executive decision the day before to do something that I will only do one time in my life because of the trip and will make any kind of road rash much easier to deal with. I shaved the legs… A video of that fortunately does not exist and Lee now can't stop staring at my legs, maybe not. One day to departure video and pics. We tuned our bikes up in a Walmart parking lot, had our first night of camping. We skipped paying for a camp ground and went back into the woods where some houses were being built and found a perfect empty lot to camp in. We did a 90 mile ride today from Arlington, VA to Purcellville, VA today on the W&OD trail. The W&OD used to be a railroad line that ran from 1859 to 1968. Now the trail is a popular biking, running, dog walking, and skipping trail in the Northern Virginia area. It runs 45 miles to Purcellville, so it makes perfect sense to see the end of the trail, right? ![]()
I sat down with my friend George Babiak this past weekend to talk about the Bike Trip and some of George’s biking journeys. In 1995 George biked with his wife from New York City to Alberta Canada and covered over 4,000 miles. ![]() We've pretty much nailed down our route across the country and have referenced a number of different sources for the right roads to ride on. We are riding on parts of the TransAmerica Trail established by the Adventure Cycling Association. The Adventure Cycling Association was established in 1973 and is the number one source for Bicycle routes and travel by bicycle. We will be following the TransAmerica Trail mostly through Kentucky, Missouri, and Kansas. The trip is fairly straightforward until we get to Colorado and then we are in for several physically grueling weeks. We are completing numerous Life-Lists items, competing in races and attending all sorts of events in Colorado and Utah. ![]() TONS of organization! Where to stay, what to do, who to meet. Lots of planning is going on right now and it's really becoming quite an exciting reality as things are falling into place. ![]() I biked the perimeter of Manhattan yesterday, starting on the Upper East Side, on up the FDR around the top, over to the Upper West side, down around the tip, across the Brooklyn Bridge, then back up the FDR to finish where I started. It's about 32 miles around the island and I did it in about 2:30 with significant detours at some places. It was about 90 degrees out yesterday with pretty heavy humidity, so it should be relatively similar to a lot of the conditions we will encounter on the trip, except for the deserts in Nevada, which we don't really know what to expect. |
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