Monday, August 2, 2010

Suffolk to Virginia Beach

[Sunday, August 1] We cannot believe this day has arrived...the home stretch. We woke at Bike West around 7:00 and got our world together. Bill offered to ride along side of us as we biked on hwy 58/460 through a busy 10-mile section of our route east. Once through, we picked up Military Hwy in Cheasapeake and biked around the southside of Tidewater to avoid the crazy traffic. At 1:30 we arrived at Rudee Inlet, the south end of Virginia Beach. We rode along the boardwalk a while and took our bikes on the beach. We took many victory pictures and celebrated. With today's 47 mile ride, the grand total from the Golden Gate Bridge to Virginia Beach totaled 4,015 miles. Thank you all for your prayers, encouragement and support. Most of all...we thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for what he did in and through us over the last two months. To Him be all glory and honor, Amen.

Richmond to Suffolk

[Saturday, July 31] After a great evening and much needed sleep we departed on our pre-victory ride to Yorktown, VA. We were so excited that we kept a 19-20mph pace for the first 50 miles along "plantation road" along the James River (route 5). When we approached Williamsburg we jumped on the Colonial Parkway and also rode through the heart of historic Williamsburg. We got back on the parkway and biked to Yorktown...the official end of the Transamerica route. But we were not finished. We went back to Williamsburg and caught the ferry to Surry county south of the James River. We had a wonderful dinner at the Surry House with Jeff's in-laws Jim and Jean Cates. From here we biked another 40 miles to downtown Suffolk and crashed at Bike West, an awesome bike shop owned by Jeff's long-time-friend Bill Williams. Bill ordered an absolutely huge pizza and we devoured it in the late evening. Today, we biked 116.5 miles!

Mineral to Richmond

[Friday, July 30] Our stay at the Mineral fire station was cool. Fire fighter Bob was gracious to us. We went back to the diner we ate at last night for breakfast. We read more Scripture and hit the road about 8:00am. Since we were in flatland, we were able to keep a brisk pace all the way to Mechanicsville. While on route 156 we approached I-64 and Hwy 60 we met up with Greg Carr whom we met back in Kentucky when his church was doing some missionary work. Greg and his wife Julie invited us to stay at their home for the night AND took us out to Golden Corral (we love buffets). It was a wonderful evening with the Carr family...thank you so much! Tomorrow...we head to the coast!