Adventures after the merger
Total distance: 233.75 miles
Day 15 – 0 miles – Rochester, NY
REST DAY! First order of business was our Healthy Me appointment which was scheduled for 10:45am. After getting weighed and measured, we had officially completed the most difficult step of saving money on next year’s health insurance premiums. We went in search of food and wifi and found ourselves in the cafe at Wegmans.
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Total distance: 307.1 miles
Day 8 – 52.2 miles – Paradox, NY to Deerland, NY
Theme: Trying to race the raindrops. We did not win! Mostly it was a tortoise and the hare sort of situation in which we stopped to play cribbage and eat a snack allowing the rain to catch us. The last three miles were pretty wet.
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Total distance: 276.5 miles
Day 1 – 51.5 miles – Kennebunk, ME to Province Lake
Biking was a success! We made it to Province Lake on the Maine / New Hampshire border. Somehow a tick leapt up and bit Jess in the thigh while she was biking, but she noticed right away and pulled it off. This was our first indication that this tick season was bad since we hadn’t even been in long grass.
Continue reading “Week 1: Bicycling Kennebunk, ME to Paradox, NY”After returning to the United States, we spent a whirlwind week traveling up the east coast from Philadelphia to Boston visiting family and friends along the way. We then had one week in Boston to get ready for our roughly 1,500-mile bike ride from Kennebunk, Maine to Onamia, Minnesota. We got a free tune-up on our bicycles, some extra gear, and tons of advice from some very helpful employees at Cambridge Bicycle. We traded in our hiking backpacks and hiking boots for panniers and clip-in bicycle shoes, and filled a big box with stuff we’ll need for Phase 3 but don’t want to carry on our bicycles. We did a practice ride to Westwood, MA from Boston (roughly 15 miles) to see how realistic our goal of 30 miles average per day seemed. Jess took a minor tumble when she realized at the last minute she was supposed to stop for a school bus with its stop sign out but forgot to unclip her shoes. That aside, the test was successful. We made a few minor adjustments to our weight distribution and we were set.
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