We awoke with only 32 miles between us and the end of the ride.
We were eager to get our day started yet took extra time with the bikes, organizing the car, making a stop at Walgreens and Starbucks before setting out on the busy arterial roads of Suffolk, Portsmouth, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach. This would be our last day of riding , our bodies were ready for a rest after two months with only six days off, yet our spirit was wanting this experience to never end.
The morning was overcast with a 20% chance of rain which in reality there was an 80% chance of no rain. Our rain jackets were on top inside the panniers just in case we needed them. Soon the overcast skies gave way to sun for our last enjoyable 32 miles. Somehow it seemed like our angels were watching over us and delivered a perfect day for an epic ending. It seemed like it took a long time to cover 32 miles through all the stop lights on the busy urban streets, and we wanted it to go quicker anticipating and wanting to see and smell the Atlantic Ocean. We made a right turn onto Atlantic Avenue and made a call to Carol. She was waiting for our arrival 1/2 mile north of where we were. We walked through a pedestrian passageway to the Boardwalk where we got our first glimpse of the Atlantic where we both looked at each other and said We Made It! We rode north to where Carol was waiting with her iPad recording our arrival
Apparently we were on the wrong path and somehow we didn't care at that moment of our infraction and we don't think Virginia Beach cared either.
We celebrated our arrival with a congratulatory beer, and waited for good friends
Cindy Herold and
Carole Lee Manning who drove up from North Carolina to experience our ending and dipping our wheels in the Atlantic completing our true Coast to Coast ride supporting the Lazarex Cancer Foundation.
Crowdrise.com/oldspokesoutridingcancer.
It was the end of an epic, amazing, wonderful, difficult, educational, heart warming ride.
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| Getting started for the final ride |
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| Off the ferry and into Sufolk |
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| Waiting for the ferry |
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| Here comes are ferry |
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| On the Boardwalk, we made it. |
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| Get those wheels in the water |
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