Day 2–22 Mile Bike Ride

   


This morning we drove into town and grabbed some breakfast.  The town we were in, Montague, was very small and cute town.  There were flowers planted along the roads and in planters along main street.
   The bike trail began in Montague so we unloaded the bikes and strapped Lydia in her bicycle seat-yes, Lydia came along too!

   At the very beginning of the trail, Kate nearly ran over a water snake.
   The first few miles were fairly arduous and Kate was having a hard time keeping up.  We stopped at 4 miles for a quick break.  The trail was pretty flat, but we were still going uphill.



  We stopped at “Dips n Dogs” for another break at about 7 miles.  Unfortunately, they didn’t have any dips and we weren’t hungry enough for dogs, so we just got a few water bottles.
   Kate was having a hard time keeping up, so we looked at her bike to see if something was wrong.  The front brake was rubbing against the wheel so we disengaged it which made a world of difference.




We rode until we reached the town of New Era where we stopped to eat lunch and air up our tires.  The markers showed we were half way and had gone 11 miles.


   It would’ve been great to go the next 11 miles of the bike trail, but we would’ve needed someone to pick us up at the other end with our bikes.  So, we had to turn around and go back the way we came.
   With Kate’s bike adjusted and food in our stomachs we did the 11 miles back in only an hour and ten minutes.  I never would've thought we could do the 22 miles, but we sure did!
   We stopped at Montague foods, the local grocery store, to pickup food for the rest of the week.  After dinner at the house,  we drove over to the beach that was only a couple of miles away.
   It looked just like the ocean and had the same white sand beaches we love in Florida.  However, there was a big difference between these beaches and it can be described in one word: DUNES.  More on those later…

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