Ahh…we have finally arrived at the second rest day. Yesterday I did get to ride, and it was an interesting eperience waking up from camping; it’s the first time we did that this trip and everything was harder and soggier than I remembered. But we did get going, and after a short and very nice ferry ride we got to ride about 50 miles of the nicest and smoothest bike path I have ever been on. It’s called the Virginia Capitol Trail and it was gorgeous. They were having some sort of cycling event this weekend actually and so there were more than the usual number of cyclists. Usually with a bike path they seem nice in theory but are actually kind of frustrating to cycle on because of the number of walkers, the number of road intersections and/or the quality of the surface. But in this case it was a blissful dream. Bad weather has been chasing us for the last 3 or 4 days and I raced the rain all day - but I won! Then we got into camp and immediately headed to a great restaurant, then a shower at the local YMCA, a Church dinner and a trip to the local brewery, all of which were fantastic (can you tell my life revolves around food?). I didn’t honestly get to see much of Richmond but that’s OK; I’ve been here before and I’m actually just not all that fascinated by the Civil War, if I’m honest.
Another cool thing about today is that we overlapped the trail for the TransAm. It did bring back memories of that trip, though I did not specifically remember the bike path. But that was 6 years ago. You’ll see a picture below of me next to a route 76 sign; that’s the TransAm.
Also, I had the most amazing fish sandwich from a gas station.
