Update: No pictures for now. With 2 dead phones we are greatly impaired!
Well, we are officially car camping pros! We both slept great last night and woke up around 6 ready to ride. Maybe the tent wine helped, but most credit goes to the big cushy air mattresses and bringing our own pillows. After a quick stop at the main site for a wash up we headed over to the Edenton Coffee House. The line was long but they were doing a great job of handling it and we both had coffees and breakfast paninis.
Registration opened at 7:30 and that line was a bit of a mess. We were finally on the road around 9 and planning to do the 26 mile route as we have just come out of winter hibernation and the weather forecast was not looking at all good.
We started out on a very well marked route along wonderfully low traffic roads. Flat, flat, flat. You just pedal endlessly. Lots of vast fields like this one. Some look like all dirt but are probably planted, some have low plants that we think might be peanuts and some just seem to have a lot of grass.
The first rest stop was at 10 miles and we enjoyed a PB&J sandwich and a banana.
We met a couple doing the 37 mile ride and started thinking about switching as the weather really didn’t look all that bad. When the route split about 20 miles in we went for it. Not a problem for our legs at all but later it would prove to be a tough choice for our poor old spring time butts!
I didn’t really care all that much about Tip Toe Rd, but at that point I was taking any excuse for a butt break so I asked Tom to stop for a picture. We were both relieved to arrive back at the tent around 2 – great ride but good to be off the saddles!
Second rest stop was at a wildlife refuge. Really pretty and some interesting bikes as well
Second rest stop was at a wildlife refuge. Really pretty and some interesting bikes as well
We headed to the shower trailers and I took the 2 phones to the charging station figuring they would charge up while we showered. It was sprinkling but the chargers were under a tent so I left the phones and headed for the shower. About 2 minutes later a torrential and sustained rain started and lasted all through our showers, through a mad dash to retrieve the phones and then the walk back to our campsite. We were both soaked and both phones are still recovering. Tom’s may be a goner.
When the rain let up we grabbed a coffee in town, hung out at the tent some more and then walked back to town for dinner at an Edenton Beer Garden. Tonight they had a pig roast with baked beans. Very good and we shared a table with a nice couple from Atlanta.
Now we’re back in the tent and the torrential rain has started again, now with thunder and lightening too! Kind of cozy but why oh why do I always get rained on in Edenton? This town was the scene of the Woman Tours Hurricane Sandy disaster. Is it Edenton or is it me?