I expected another day into the wind so I started out by myself right after breakfast. It was a lighter wind to start with and there were a lot of trees to block, so it was pretty good riding. I stopped three times to stretch out my back, Bob caught me a little before checkpoint and we rode together for awhile.
The extra food from Shirley’s the day before magically was transported to today’s checkpoint, so again, we basically got free food to chew on and some to feed the wild kitty that was hanging around. While we were there, the store was doing a brisk ice business, we looked in the ice chest of one of the locals – it was full of blue crab and shrimp – these people are so lucky! Seven miles after checkpoint the road turned and we had a tailwind – it was beautiful! Made the next 25 miles a joy to ride! Bob went off route for awhile so I rode by myself until I caught up to Jeff. We stopped at a store for a snack and then rode the rest of the day together.
When we got close to Abbeyville, Pierre stopped us and told us about a change to the route ahead and either he didn’t explain it very well or we didn’t pay attention, but we got quite confused on the ride into town. Back on route and riding through town our DRG’s had us making a lot of turns in a very short distance; combined with the beautiful buildings to look at – lots of brick and detail – Jeff and I got lost again. We went a few miles out of our way, found the motel from the opposite direction, but we got there.
With our extra exploration of the town, we did see that they had a movie theater within walking distance of our motel. So after cleaning up, Keri and I went to the store for some wine and skanky cheese to share with Bob and Sig for happy hour. Then we rushed through dinner so we could go see “Spiderman.” It was fun to do something different, but a really bad movie.
98.8 miles