Category: USA
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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…
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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…
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Woodbine, NJ to Wildwood, NJ
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…
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Bass River, NJ to Woodbine, NJ
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…
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Seaside Heights, NJ to Bass River, NJ
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…