Just one more day....

Swamp land in eastern North Carolina

Today we rode a very flat 92 miles from Williamston to East Lake, NC.  The total climbing for the day was less than 400', which rivals any day in Kansas!  Much of the land we rode through was swamps.  We kept looking for the swamp loggers to pop out from from a side road.  They must be around somewhere since we passed several lumber mills along the way.

We have technically made it to the Atlantic ocean.  We passed by Albemarle Sound this afternoon before having the thrill of riding the 3 mile long, 2 lane, Alligator River bridge.  It is the primary access to this stretch of the outer banks, so there was plenty of traffic.  I rode as fast as I could after an 85 mile day into a 10mph headwind, but I wish I could have gone faster!  All of the traffic was very courteous and there was really no problem.   Here is our track for the day.

Draw bridge in the middle of the Alligator River Bridge

That leaves only 40 miles to Kitty Hawk on the outer banks of North Carolina, but two more very long bridges, each about 3 miles long as well.  We plan to get an early start to get over the bridges before the traffic gets too bad.

Personal goals are dropping like flies.  Both Beth and Nicholas have reached their mileage goals whether they ride tomorrow or not.  Nicholas wanted to ride a 1000 miles on the trip and Beth wanted to do at least half of the total mileage that I did.  Here are the current riding stats: