Biking Across the U.S (hopefully)
Yorktown to Chicahominy Park - 30
Leg one of the journey over with! I got up at the butt-crack of dawn (had a teacher once who didn't appreciate that phrase... told him it was better than the alternative, he didn't like that either) to get everything finalized before jumping in the car at 8am-ish. Somehow I convinced my buddy Ray to give me a lift out to Yorktown, VA to start this whole thing. When you put two studs like us in a car together for three hours, naturally, conversations go to the ramifications of time travel and historical battles. We're both super cool. We bummed around the beach of Yorktown and their used bookstore before snapping a few pics of me ceremonially dipping the back wheel in the Atlantic... and then fully loaded it. I didn't want sand all over my nice new panniers (just kidding I was just being lazy). Ray got back in the car and and did my first easy miles to my campsite for the night. Right in time for a ginormous storm to blow in and make me hide out in the bathroom until it was over. Cool part of it was I met a father/daughter team of 'extreme amusement parkers' who were at the campsite to hit up Busch gardens everyday for a week. Their advice: Get there when the park opens and head to the back, working your way to the entrance. Ride rides when people are eating and eat when people ride rides. Always go left... most people are right handed so naturally turn to their right, so therefor do the opposite (not sure about this one but I like it).
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Amanda McCall
6/15/2017 04:50:43 pm
Keep the pics coming, Alex! Stay safe!
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Margaret Soper Gutierrez
6/16/2017 04:59:05 pm
Good luck, Alex! Thinking about you every day and looking forward to peering over your shoulder on this blog while your cross country adventure unfurls....
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Caleb Terry
6/19/2017 04:52:44 pm
You're lame
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