Category: USA

  • Nassawadox, VA to Virginia Beach, VA

    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…

  • Snow Hill, MD to Nassawadox, VA

    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…

  • Berlin, MD to Snow Hill, MD

    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…

  • Berlin, MD

    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…

  • Seaford, DE to Berlin, MD

    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…