Narrow Roads and No Shoulders

The road we took out of Somerset, NJ was one of the narrowest roads we ridden on since beginning our trip. At 7:30 this morning it was crowed with lots of people in their cars trying to get to work. Imagine I-95 during early morning rush hour and there is only one lane! At one point we pulled off the road to let a number of cars go by us so that we wouldn't slow down their way to work and be mad at us, or glad depending upon whether they like their jobs.

I also noticed something different about starting out today....NO HILLS, whoopee I was so happy. We did have a few rolling hills but nothing steep. I think steep hills are in our past...finally!

Our SAG stop today was at Russo's Orchard where we saw lots of pumpkins just waiting to be cut up for Halloween and beautiful mums waiting to be planted. We each got a piece of apple or blueberry pie, which were made at Russo's. I had a piece of apple pie, it was delicious! I love those little extra surprises at the SAG stops.

We made a stop to use the "facilities" at a local Greek Restaurant and ended up eating lunch there because the skies just opened up and poured! It turned out to be a great decision, totally unplanned, but just what we needed.

After lunch we still had about 25 miles to ride to get to our hotel. Thank goodness the roads were flat and for the most part smooth with very little head winds. But more importantly, no more rain!!! We actually rode into town with sun shine on our backs!

I did see some more snakes today, one was black and really, really fat! I thought that it was a piece of tire but it wasn't. So the snake count for today was 5.

The ride today was 79 miles and took 5 hours and 35 minutes. That also means we have one more day of riding and then we get a rest day!!!! You can't see it but I'm doing the happy dance right now.