Category: Bike Tour
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Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Day 2 We’re spending four nights on Martha’s Vineyard at the campground. After our 8-consecutive-day riding record, and with fairly-extensive exploratory rides planned for the next two days, this day was a complete rest day, where we didn’t leave the campground. Plus, it was a bit rainy in the afternoon, and then much moreso overnight.…
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Sandwich, MA to Martha’s Vineyard, MA
I naturally woke at 6am (an hour ahead of our 7am alarm) to find a temperature 5 degrees warmer than yesterday’s 58F, and all dry again. We were getting back onto the Cape Cod Canal bike path, but this time on the south side of the canal, heading back west. The trail is oddly inaccessible,…
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East Taunton, MA to Sandwich, MA
When I stuck my head outside the tent last night to make sure a critter wasn’t going at my bags (it wasn’t, I was just imagining things), I could see my breath shining in the light of my headlamp. So it wasn’t surprising that we woke to our coldest New England morning so far, 53F,…
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Warwick, RI to East Taunton, MA
We got rolling out of our motel at 9:30am, and within 15 seconds we were back on the Washington Secondary Rail Trail, heading north. The trail was again freshly repaved and perfect (except for some of the road crossings which still have concrete work to complete), and made for the easiest morning start we’ve had…
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Charlestown, RI to Warwick, RI
When we woke up it was 58 degrees and dry. Well, not “dry” dry; the wooden picnic table was still damp from the days of rain that it had been sitting under, but it was clear that the water from the sky had ceased hours ago. Which was what the forecast had predicted, and why…