Jun/090
Day 1 – Across the Delmarva (77.7 miles)
Took the wheel dip photo this morning which was more difficult than expected; fully loaded bikes aren’t the easiest things to carry down a sand bank. Ended up with a couple of good photos and it had to be done really.
Started off on the first ride of tour and headed off down some very long, straight roads for Crisfield, MD. A few miles after Indiantown (really just an intersection) Cal stopped to ask for water from a guy out gardening. We ended up with the whole family out there and they sorted us out with cold water and bananas. Result. Bloody nice folks.
Made v good time to Crisfield although me and Reidy were flagging towards the end. Kind of a different climate to the UK; they have sunshine over here – it’s… unfamiliar. Hopefully it won’t take too long to acclimatize. If we get used to doing this sort of pace we can get the miles out of the way in the morning and just lounge around in the afternoon.
Stopped in at a little restaurant at the end and absolutely destroyed some ribs, chicken and Pepsi. The soft drink refill idea isn’t good business sense when you’ve got three guys who just cycled 70 miles in sweltering heat.
Headed over to Janes Island state park to find a camp site and they sorted us one out straight away for a good price. Nice place, and there was a nice breeze which kept all the mozzies away.
We set up tents and headed out into town to find some wifi and some… beer and found a nice place called Racks. Asked the owner and some of the regulars about the ferry service across the bay and they said they didn’t think there was one! Callum was worried but I wasn’t because if you can’t trust Google’s opinion that there was a boat across, who can you trust?
Callum has taken laziness to a new level. He doesn’t even get out of his tent to have a piss, he simply opens the side door, kneels down with cock in hand and pisses. The fact that he also likes to keep his blindfold on means I now pitch my tent a few feet away.