This is it! It is taking way too long to drive out here (2 hrs) to make it worthwhile for a one-day adventure, even with the increased miles we can cover on our bikes. We have to change our plans to include staying overnight camping to make the ride less of a grind. It really takes away from the joy of hiking/biking the BT. Anyways, so future blog posts will be more infrequent, but hopefully associated with bigger chunks of distance along with fun camping. Today was another all-roader except for a very BRIEF interlude of crushed stone path right outside of Pemberville. This path came out on acres of perfect rows of nursery plants to keep all those new suburban homes nice and greened up. If you looked up, the sky was dramatic but beautiful (another omen of a missed weather forecast). The roads we traveled were pretty much no wider than a tow path and exceedingly flat- just perfect for biking. Also barely any cars! It was very remote and you felt exposed with no crops in the fields to surround you. This also made it difficult to find the blue blazes, and at one point we thought they were painted on the road itself, but this turned out to be wrong. Still, it was super nice until Robin crashed into the rear derailleur of Wendy’s bike and essentially broke it off- I wasn’t close enough to the action to see what happened but imagine the Keystone Cops, or some other clown routine, here to capture the moment. We had 7 miles to go, so they walked and April and I peddled off to finish up and get the rescue car. The last leg was not much fun, a lot more main roads with traffic and… rain! There we go again- adding insult to injury! Never-the-less we got to the car, went back and rescued R&W (who had gotten surprisingly far on foot!) and on the long ride back we treated ourselves to some ice cream at Lulu’s, which you can’t miss. The sugar rush did a nice job of keeping us awake!
