Category: Bike Tour

Day 4 Today was a ride around the west side of the island. At 42 miles, it’s the longest ride we’ve done over the last 10 days, but since we were unloaded, it was easy to do it at a higher speed than any of the shorter ones. Many of the island businesses use an…

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.…

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,…

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,…