During Spring 2015, a group of friends and I will be touring the entire east coast from Key West, Florida to Bar Harbor, Maine, approximately 2,500 miles in total, following the Atlantic Coast route created by the Adventure Cycling Association. This will be a self contained fully loaded bike tour which means I'll be carrying around 45 lbs. or so. I'm looking forward to experiencing the east coast like never before. With this blog, I plan to post pictures as we progress using the BlogPress APP on my mobile phone. Let's see how it goes and wish me luck. On a bike tour such as this, our daily challenges and not necessarily in this order, will be our physical condition, food, shelter, traffic, navigation, and weather. The above picture was taken during my Southern Tier crossing of the U.S. in spring of 2008. Bike touring requires a specific mind set and a passion.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Kill Devil Hills to Elizabeth City

Today we left the outer banks riding to Elizabeth City, about 70
miles for the day. We were lucky to visit the outer banks before the high season, which peaks during the summertime due to its lower seasonal humidity, a result of being surrounded by water. Between the long stretches of sand and dunes, the outer banks is primed for vacationers with its hotels, motels, rolls of vacation homes for rent, and low-rise condominiums. I would not want to be here on a bike or in a car during the peak season because there would be traffic jams all day long on their narrow two lane roads. Other than a few busy roads, especially where road work narrowed the lanes, we had a great day for riding with moderate winds, temperatures, and humidity; we were surprised to see that the temperature had reached 79 degrees at 4:00pm. Riding inland, the countryside with its mixture of woodlands, farms, and rural homes with the occasional farm animals, invoked within me, the Virginia of my imagination. Tomorrow, however, we'll be entering the real state of Virginia. Its difficult for me to imagine, but we have ridden 1,540 miles in a month of travel so far.


A common sight on the roadways


Hartley Davidson Poker run.





Canola fields








Roadside break in the shade.


There's a motorcycle event in the outer banks with tens of thousands of riders. Good thing we're leaving.





Wheat fields








Jail Bird



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