We wake up and open the camper to walk outside. It is cold as we walk to the house. Eric is cooking breakfast, egg and French toast. We visit and relax after the morning meal.
I get myself and the bike ready to roll out the last 26 miles of our 8,159 mile 7 month tour.
Riding out the last mile was a double edged sword. I left for this tour with Nancy in a snow storm. We stopped at the Cummington Creamery for lunch and their oatmeal raisin cookies on March 26. Almost 7 months later the tour is over and I stop at the Creamery for an oatmeal raisin cookie.
As I eat the cookie I reflect. I really do not want the tour to end. Rationally, I know it’s time. The weather is turning towards winter. I can now settle in and enjoy the achievement. At 70 I left Delaware with my dear friend CK to bicycle down the coast to the Chesapeake Bay. From Yorktown, VA I rode the TransAm bicycle route across the country to Astoria, OR. Nancy and I then spent five days in Washington Park in Anacortes,WA. before cycling east on the Northern Tier Route to Buffalo, NY. I then rode the Erie Canal Trail to Waterford,NY. I crossed the Hudson River to ride familiar country roads to Massachusetts and back home in Ashfield.
