The Other Georgetown

After Thursday's weather which was rainy in the morning and mostly overcast in the rest of the day, Friday was spectacular!  Will and I planned the last 50 mile ride of the vacation to ride out to Georgetown, DE and then up through Redden State Forest (fingers were crossed that the road went through or wasn't dirt), then back through Milton, and returning to the vacation house.

Sunset Tandem Ride with Elliot

Elliot and I headed out Thursday evening in the other direction towards Cape Henlopen and found a new route to the back end of Ft Miles.  I wish we had left sooner so we would have had more time to explore further but we only got as far as the look out on Gordon's Pond.

Dogfish Head Soup

On Wednesday, Will and I rode to Milton where the Dogfish Head Brewery is located and it was a humid, foggy morning.  This ride turned into a Google Maps Failure because it turns out North Bayshore Road is cutoff by a gated community between Broadkill Road and Primehook Beach, so we had to turn around and ride back the way we came.   

Never-the-less, what we saw along the way was still remarkable ...

Tandeming the Junction and Breakwater Trail

Elliot and went exploring on Tuesday on the Tandem.  We rode from the vacation house over to the Junction and Breakwater Rail Trail, which is atop, in some places an old railroad bed that served Rehoboth Beach until 1928.  The straight sections you knew you were on the actual railroad bed and then there were some go arounds where the property had been developed and a Greenway was used to connect the dots.

50 mile loop around the bays

Day 2 of the Rehoboth Beach Family vacation and ride #3, my brother-in-law and riding partner and I headed out for a 50 loop around Rehoboth and Indian River Bays.  We found the route on Ride With Gps and decided to try it.

The wind was out of the South East, so riding down the Coastal Highway this morning was tough but I figured when we got inland it would not be so bad.

I got Crabs in OC!

My first ride on vacation at Rehoboth Beach started out with a Solo Ride down to Ocean City, Maryland. What is total irony is that while I was stationed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD not once did I ever make it to Ocean City.  So, today, 25 years later I rode down there to see what it's like.

It had rained the night before and the roads were wet making it a really cool morning.  As I road south I was really moving and didn't encounter any wind as I was expecting.

In fact, I rode 25 miles at an average speed of 19 miles an hour! The one upsetting thing was that the Cannondale wouldn't shift out of the outer ring unless I used my foot to tap the derailleur so I stayed in the big ring the whole time. Once I turned around is when everything went to hell ...