8 Straight Days of Cycling

It's 10:00p.m., do you know where you are? After 8 straight days of cycling we are finally in Dewey Beach, Del. We left Hammonton, NJ this morning and had another long day of riding and a deadline to be in Cape May before 2:30p.m.We left under cloudy sky's, boy there's a surprise.......not. The roads were great with wide shoulders and minimal traffic, quite a change from yesterday. For the first part of our day we were riding in the countryside of New Jersey under tree lined roads.

We had our first "official" SAG at mile 36 and just as we pulled out from our stop, it began to drizzle and then about a mile down the road it just opened up and pured. We found cover at a store front which was being renovated. The workers were so kind to allow us to get out of the rain, but after 10 minutes, we knew that we needed to get going. We had someplace to be and needed to be there no later then 2:15, so it was back out on the road and away we went in the rain for our destination.As we rode on we began to get the scent of the Atlantic Ocean and found ourselves heading into a number of seaside towns like Sea Isle and Wildwood. It was fun to have the roads pretty much to ourselves since it's off season. But there was no dilly dalling along the route today because we had more bridges to cross and about 15 miles to ride, to make it to our destination in Cape May.

You ask yourself "what's so important about Cape May and getting there by 2:15? We had to catch the Ferry so that we could get to the hotel before dark and we made it! It was a 17 mile ride that took 80 minutes and no those 17 miles didn't count as part of the 80 mile total for today. As we were getting ready to dock, I took this picture that I thought told the story of our ride today, a little bit of sun, clouds and rain!

I'm happy to say that even as we cycled through the country roads early this morning, I only saw one very smooched snake. Guess they knew we were headed their way and stayed home.

So now you know how the first 8 days of my trip ended...in Dewey Beach, Del. and tomorrow I am delighted to tell you is our first rest day, so I will bid you adieu, hope that's how you spell it!, and get some well deserved rest. I am soooo excited that I don't have to set my alarm!

Have a great Friday, I know I will!