Getting close to the end

Farm Country RV Park .... in a corn field, but very nice

We are really getting close to the end now.  Only two more days of riding left and the last day is less than 40 miles.  We are still one day ahead of our original schedule that we put together back in early May. I am really impressed with the plan we put together and how well it has all gone.

The schedule called for a rest day a couple of days ago, but we decided to ride and use the rest day to make our last 3 days a little more of a relaxed pace... plus it worked out better with finding RV parks and camping.  Finding RV and camping sites in North Carolina has been challenging.  I'm not sure why they seem to be few and far between, but they are.

The weather has been holding up for us.  We had some heavy rain showers during the night before yesterday's ride.  But by morning it was slightly overcast and cool, so a good day for riding.  It was a pretty long day at 95.5 miles with only rolling hills.  We rode the tandem for the first 58 miles and then I finished up alone.  Here is the track from yesterday.  Traffic was a little heavy as we skirted north of the Durham area, but we had very quiet country roads for the most part.

Last night we were in a KOA north of Rocky Mount, NC and it could really use some TLC.  The managers seemed to be clueless about being in the service industry and they are definitely in the running for the most disgusting showers we have found in our 46 nights of camping in RV parks.

Today we rode through the farming flat lands of eastern North Carolina.  Lots of tobacco, cotton, corn, soybeans and peanuts. A scheduled 54 miles turned into 58 with a detour thrown in.  Nicholas missed us when we stopped for a late breakfast in Hobgood.  Beth's text to let him know we had stopped didn't go through because of poor cell coverage.  But we caught up with each other about 15 miles down the road as we would sporadically get messages in/out as we went into and out of cell coverage.  Here is the track for today.

Tonight we are in a family owned and operated RV park near Williamston, NC and it is very nice.  Not sure how well it is doing financially.  It is a little bit of a "Field of Dreams" situation... literally in the middle of a corn field!

Tobacco Fields

Cotton plants in bloom

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Tomorrow is another fairly long day at 89 miles, but very flat day, finishing with a 3 mile ride across a two lane bridge.... that could be exciting!  Then its only about 40 miles on in to Kitty Hawk on Sunday!