Category: New Jersey

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…

After a few days of mostly-tailwinds pushing us down New Jersey, the winds flipped around overnight. So even though it was a shorter ride to our destination, I still adjusted on the fly to a minimal-distance option, one that kept us off the more-exposed coast longer than I’d originally planned. But rather than trading less…

Last night, there remained a mismatch between the mostly-empty campground and the mostly-full map shown by the online booking system. By this morning, the mismatch had been resolved. All the city folk finally arrived after punching the clocks in New York and Philadelphia and driving across New Jersey to claim their reserved spots in the…

I felt bad for our motel owner that, with our bikes inside our room, his parking lot remained completely empty. So we couldn’t help advertise the fact that his motel was actually open. Nonetheless, by morning a car in the lot showed that one other person had taken pity, making two of the rooms occupied…

Today was the culmination of our Month of Ferries: two routes in one day! The alarm went off at 6:30am, and we made it out the door of our AirBNB by 8:25am, 5 minutes earlier than planned. Looking at multiple SteetView photos of the ferry terminal last night had me nervous, because nearly every one…