Today was the biggest ride of the entire tour at 586 miles (943
kms) and took 10 hours. We didn’t ride
bikes though we drove.
After a wonderful breakfast in our luxury B&B we loaded
up the van and headed south in the van. We
got away about 9:00 am which pretty good time was considering nobody was really
looking forward to the drive.
Luckily we never hit any traffic congestion and the trip
went quite smoothly. Agnes and Jos
traded driving duties while Patrick and I alternated snoozing and making bad
jokes about everything under the sun. One of the favourites being that we wanted to
die in our sleep like the driver.
Jos admitted that today was the furthest that he has ever
driven in one day. For Agnes and I
making the trip to and from Phoenix this was something we do on a pretty
regular basis.
On the way back we drove past so many interesting things
which we had not seen on the way north, it really drove home the point that you
could probably spend a life time visiting all the places. For example, I would
have loved to stopped to see the castle
Sterling (see picture above).
So we have two days to rest up and recover before making the
flight home. The plans are to get
everything washed up and packed up and then get out and see some of
Cambridge. There are several very nice
museums in the area and maybe even a day trip into London.
Terry
Looked like a good day for a ride. Good day for a big drive; doing the same in an all-day rain would make it a tougher drive.
ReplyDeleteThanks for doing the blog and for the great pics.
Ken C.