Today is Meiri's last day to ride on this trip. I will miss her company. Meiri and I left at 8:00Am for Ashland to meet Bob Lang for the ride into Richmond. I spoke to the clerk on duty at the motel and he asked where I was going and after I told him he gave me a different route. We left and took the new route. It was a brand new road and was a joy to ride, unfortunately, when it ended, it was not on the road that he said it would be. Meiri and I talked to a man sitting in the parking lot at the end of the road and he said that we should probably just go on Route 1 as the back roads had no shoulder. We were a little reluctant from our experiences yesterday with Route 1 but we had to go for a couple of miles to get to the road we wanted. After we were riding Route 1 for a while we realized that Saturday was a lot different from Friday. We stayed on Route 1 into Fredrecksburg. We then took Bus Rte1 thorough the old town of Fredrecksburg. We stopped to take pictures of some of the old churches and a man came up and started to ask questions about our trip. He mentioned that he had ridden from Fredrecksburg to Pittsburgh PA. I said I was from Pittsburgh and he said he was originally from Mt. Lebanon. He has rode on the Yough trail and several other trails in the Pittsburgh area.
We continued on to the Fredrecksburg Battlefield visitor center. The movie explaining the battle was about to start so we went in a watched it. It is a little depressing to hear how many men lost their lives because of the decisions by their leaders. We also went on a little tour and saw the sunken road and stone wall where the Confederates slaughtered the Union army. I have read about this wall for years and now I have finally seen it.
We left the visitor center and went through the Battlefield park. It was very nice with tree lined roads and quiet woods. After the park we were back on two lane county roads with a lot of high speed traffic and narrow berms. We decided to go back to Route 1 where the traffic was light and it was a four lane highway so we would have some room.
We stopped for lunch and ran into several young boys who were very impressed with out bikes and the ride we were doing.
We stopped in a connivance store and as we were leaving, I heard someone calling to us. He was a homeless man and he came down to see what we were doing. After he heard our story, he took a dollar out of his pocket and tried to give it to Meiri. He said we needed the money. I told him we didn't need it. Another man came down at that point and told the first man that we were rich and didn't need the money. I said we weren't rich but we still didn't need the money.
We were starting to make pretty good time as the traffic remained light and the roads were starting to get flatter. We stopped again at another store and a man yelled from a truck that he said he had seen us earlier in Fredrecksburg and he was impressed that we had come so far.
A couple of motorcycles came in ridden by a man and woman. We talked for them for quite a while. The man said he wished he could ride like us so he wouldn't have the big belly that he had. By then, it was getting to be around 4:30 so we decided that we would just have Bob pick us up instead of trying to ride to his house. As Meiri says, we have ridden across the entire United States so we don't have anything to prove!!!
We got to Bob and Amy's around 6:00PM and Amy had a great meal for us including a lot of gluten free treats for me.
Tomorrow is a rest day. Bob and Meiri and I will do a little ride and then on Monday, Meiri goes home and Bob and I head for Florida.
We continued on to the Fredrecksburg Battlefield visitor center. The movie explaining the battle was about to start so we went in a watched it. It is a little depressing to hear how many men lost their lives because of the decisions by their leaders. We also went on a little tour and saw the sunken road and stone wall where the Confederates slaughtered the Union army. I have read about this wall for years and now I have finally seen it.
We left the visitor center and went through the Battlefield park. It was very nice with tree lined roads and quiet woods. After the park we were back on two lane county roads with a lot of high speed traffic and narrow berms. We decided to go back to Route 1 where the traffic was light and it was a four lane highway so we would have some room.
We stopped for lunch and ran into several young boys who were very impressed with out bikes and the ride we were doing.
We stopped in a connivance store and as we were leaving, I heard someone calling to us. He was a homeless man and he came down to see what we were doing. After he heard our story, he took a dollar out of his pocket and tried to give it to Meiri. He said we needed the money. I told him we didn't need it. Another man came down at that point and told the first man that we were rich and didn't need the money. I said we weren't rich but we still didn't need the money.
We were starting to make pretty good time as the traffic remained light and the roads were starting to get flatter. We stopped again at another store and a man yelled from a truck that he said he had seen us earlier in Fredrecksburg and he was impressed that we had come so far.
A couple of motorcycles came in ridden by a man and woman. We talked for them for quite a while. The man said he wished he could ride like us so he wouldn't have the big belly that he had. By then, it was getting to be around 4:30 so we decided that we would just have Bob pick us up instead of trying to ride to his house. As Meiri says, we have ridden across the entire United States so we don't have anything to prove!!!
We got to Bob and Amy's around 6:00PM and Amy had a great meal for us including a lot of gluten free treats for me.
Tomorrow is a rest day. Bob and Meiri and I will do a little ride and then on Monday, Meiri goes home and Bob and I head for Florida.
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