Thursday June 30
Thursday was a perfect day for biking. I woke at 4 A.M. beacuse, due to miscalculation, I thought it was 6 A.M., which is the time we usually start our mornings. Lazily, I laid in bed waiting for someone else to break the morning trend of laying in our sleeping bags until 6:30. I ended up falling back asleep until my ipod read 8 A.M. I quickly woke and ran around to wake everyone up... After waking everyone I was informed my source of time was inaccurate, the time was actually 6. At breakfast I got much deserved scolding; it was in a playful manner though. The weather was immaculate; 70 and sunny, we had tail wind blowing at least 20 mph helping increase our speed. After mile 13, we detoured off of route 2 and cycled on a back road called the Indian Highway. During our detour, we ran into a group of cyclists who were also biking coast to coast. One of the cyclist started an online forum asking people around the world if they would like to join her on a relaxed journey across the United States; she ended up getting a group of people from around the world to join her! One man was from Israel another from Guatemala, and the rest were from around America. It was wonderful to hear their stories, and each of them had reasons as to why they wanted to bike across America. Some of the bikers were just doing it as an activity and others cycled with a purpose, yet they all traveled together. At the end of the detour we split with our new found friends and returned on Rt.2. We continue to raise awareness for Ride2Recovery and we are having a blast as we do it.
Aaron Weiss
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