Today was a 66 mile ride from Vesuvius to Troutville, VA. We were for some reason under the false sense that the day after the hard day would be easy, as it turns out, the hard day will make the next day hard no matter what. We expended so much energy yesterday on long climbs that today we ran out of gas. It was a relatively smooth and easy ride it was just simply hard to maintain power after being drained the previous day. I rode with my wonderful riding partner Rose for the Last 20 miles of a slow 8 MPH average into Troutville. Beautiful scenery in the foothills of the Blueridge along a river bed made the ride bearable. After a huge pasta and chili dinner cooked on the camp stove and a quart (an entire quart) of orange sherbet, hopefully I can regain my strength and finish up the first leg of the trip into Blacksburg tomorrow, for our first rest day of the trip. Sorry to make it such a short post but here are several pictures I have taken along the way… Enjoy!
Dipping the Rear wheel in the Atlantic symbolically starting my journey to the Pacific, in two months I will dip the front wheel in the Pacific.
Dad and his boys. Sending us off in style!
Overlooking the Chikahominy River on Day 2
Overlooking the railroad tracks in Afton... Used to be the most used travel hub in all of the North Carolina and Virginia.
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