Done!

In case you can't tell, this is a photo of the Rhode Island sign at the side of the road and I am standing next to the sign. It was dark.

Yesterday around 1:30 pm, Eric and I were sitting in the Bella Italian Restaurant, a great little pizza joint run by a very friendly Turkish guy in Westfield, CT, when I joking mused that it would be fun to go all out and bike the remaining 100 miles non-stop stopping only for donuts ever 15 miles or so. This was of course just a joke and a total absurd idea and wasn't meant to be taken seriously, especially since we had already biked 40 miles and it was already in the afternoon.

While I continued to eat my half of our 16 inch Pizza, Eric called Rachael to see when she would be coming to Rhode Island to pick us up. It turned out that Rachael decided to leave that day and that we would have to drive back Wednesday evening. In order to maximize Rhode Island time, we thought, why not bike there tonight?

So we did the unthinkable and biked 137 miles out of the Berkshire Mountains and over some of the worst hills all the way through Massachussets, Connecticut, and Rhode Island all the way to Eric's parents home in Warwick, RI.

When we arrived, we were greeted with pizza, donuts and beer, and after eating a bit, I took a shower and collapsed on a bed. When I woke up this morning, I found that my legs and especially my knees were pretty upset with me, but that's okay, because I'm all done!

Almost all done, that is. We still need to bike to the ocean (less than 1 mile away) and dip our bikes in the Atlantic to officially end The Bike Trip. Hurray!