Yesterday I rejoined the Coast to Coast Tour of the USA with Cycle America and caught up with friends Bob and Sandy from Oxford and Hamilton. I missed 15 days of riding due to a family emergency that necessitated me flying from South Dakota to Florida in mid July. Today we bicycled from Lundington to Farwell, Michigan, a distance of 96 miles and climbed only 2,200 feet in 70 to 82 degree overcast weather. Almost a third of our ride was on bike trails! We averaged just over 15 miles an hour and I was on the bike 6.5 hours. I had not been on any bike for 17 days so I felt this was a very good day. Hard to believe in just under 3 weeks we will be dipping our front tires in the Atlantic Ocean. We still have Ontario, Canada, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts to visit in the final 1,300 miles.
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