Travel Journal
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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…
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Lewes, DE to Georgetown, DE
Filling our empty fuel bottle would have required an 8-mile round trip to the nearest gas station, so we decided to just pack up and get breakfast in Lewes. We were supposed to be at Dogfish Head for our tour at 11:30am, and since it was only 13 miles away, we could have a lazy… Read more…
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Wildwood, NJ to Lewes, DE
We were out of our AirBNB at 8:50am, and repeating yesterday’s ride south and west to the other side of the finger of Cape May, except this time we went a bit past Uncle Larry’s house to the 10:30am ferry that would take us to Lewes, Delaware. We had made advanced reservations, which unusually are… Read more…
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Wildwood, NJ
Day 2 When we stay in a small AirBNB, we usually have a debate about whether we should message the host regarding storage for the bikes (and risk them rejecting us for being a pain in the ass or being a damage risk), or just keep our mouths shut and figure out what to do… Read more…
