Today is the day we have been looking forward, to or is it? Riding today was wonderful and full of expectations of the finish. We rode the first 20 miles slowly and carefully to make sure we would arrive in one piece and not do something stupid to make finishing impossible.
After the rest stop, though, I began to feel that I did not want the day to finish because then everything would be over, no more Great Adventure. It took awhile to reconcile these conflicting desires but in the end I figured we would find other adventures to do. Coming in it was quite a thrill to get to the Atlantic Ocean so many days and miles later from our start.
There was champagne and celebration at the ocean. Everyone was jubilant, splashing and dipping their bikes in the water. It was truly quite a event. We only wish our friend Bill was finishing with us.
