Our first day back on our bikes and I have to say that it was a fairly mild one comparatively speaking. We probably did just under 60 miles, but our timing was really on the ball. (I guess when you set out from your parents' house there is not too much that can go astray.) We left their loving arms and camera flash at about 5:30am, and by 12:45 we were in our camp destination, Twin Lakes State Park just south of Farmville. The terrain had been pretty good to us and the map that Dad lent us led us down some pretty secluded roads and beautiful country. We passed very few signs of "civilization", i.e. the gas station. We took Hull St. (360) to Genito Rd. (604) which we stayed on for almost the entire day, then 616 to 307 briefly, 616, 460, 607, 621, and 629. Much of this was marked with the Bike Rt. 1 although I'm not exactly sure where we picked it up and where we left it.
The park is pretty gorgeous. We went swimming in our semi-opaque undies, had an ice cream cone (for like a dollar, when does that happen!), made dinner, ate it, had silence because we have many hours to kill before bed, took naps with the flies on the picnic table benches, from which we were rudely awoken by some very low flying fighter jets. The campsite is a bit surreal, all gravel and like an empty trailer park, there is almost no one else here. We made our first campfire for dinner to save our cooking gas. Spent $32 dollars today including our delicious barbecue gas station sandwich. It was actually pretty tasty. Tomorrow the hills will start for real, and I can't help be a bit nervous. Yoga always helps that.
The park is pretty gorgeous. We went swimming in our semi-opaque undies, had an ice cream cone (for like a dollar, when does that happen!), made dinner, ate it, had silence because we have many hours to kill before bed, took naps with the flies on the picnic table benches, from which we were rudely awoken by some very low flying fighter jets. The campsite is a bit surreal, all gravel and like an empty trailer park, there is almost no one else here. We made our first campfire for dinner to save our cooking gas. Spent $32 dollars today including our delicious barbecue gas station sandwich. It was actually pretty tasty. Tomorrow the hills will start for real, and I can't help be a bit nervous. Yoga always helps that.
Yes. It is a campfire.
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