Travel Journal
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Nassawadox, VA to Virginia Beach, VA
Today we would cross the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay (via the Bridge-Tunnel), which yesterday’s tailwind-fueled longer-than-expected ride allowed us reach a day earlier than planned. The bargain we had struck with our bodies was that today could then be a shorter ~35 mile ride. But then Rett lost her shorts, I realized that Virginia… Read more…
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Snow Hill, MD to Nassawadox, VA
Our campsite was just as perfect in the morning as it was last night. Crunchy-leaf dry, 58℉, and wind-protected by the surrounding forest. Arachnophobe Rett, to her credit, rejected my offer to also do the morning dishes, and instead steeled herself to face the wall of daddy-long-legs at the dishwashing station. But during my morning… Read more…
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Berlin, MD to Snow Hill, MD
This morning, we didn’t even need to go see the sunrise to get the Assateague horses to show up; they were there from the moment I crawled out of the tent. Three of them started about 60 feet away, but slowly came closer to our site, heads down obsessively munching grass the whole time while… Read more…
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Berlin, MD
Day 2 At 11pm, Rett was asleep, but I was still awake on my phone inside our tent. I suddenly heard loud snuffling near our bikes, and I was 90% sure that Assateauge horses had arrived to investigate. I sat up, and became 100% sure when the moonlight cast a perfect horse-shaped silhouette on Rett’s… Read more…
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Seaford, DE to Berlin, MD
After four wonderful days with two sets of old friends made new, it was time to return to life “alone”. I pointed RideWithGPS to Assateauge Island, and it made a roughly straight-line path heading southeast from Seaford for 50 miles. By default its routing algorithm favors minor roads, which sometimes makes it add far too… Read more…
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Georgetown, DE to Seaford, DE
Now that we’d dallied until Saturday, we were able to get a nice goodbye (and photo!) with the whole Barlow family. The men were off to participate in a community cleanup, and on our way to the Mercado and Walmart through Georgetown we saw the crew working, and passed the police station, but didn’t get… Read more…
