Sunday, September 6, 2009

Day 6 - 65mi to Sodus Point

No mans land...we were entering unknown territory. We were unsure starting out about where we were going to sleep that night or how many miles we were going to do, where there was food or water but we were feeling positive and excited. We had a wonderful night the previous evening and felt excited to be on a new adventure. We had a couple potentional places to stay thanks to Matt and Rachel who we met in Syracuse at there awesome coffee shop...Cafe Kubal. It's a great cafe where they roast there own coffee and have a wonderful atmosphere.

Matt and Rachel in Cafe Kubal

They looked up online for us an RV park about 65mi from where we started in Sodus Point which was shorter than we wanted to but after that it appeared there wasn't a campground for a number of miles so we kept that in mind and decided we would make a decision around lunch time depending on the number of miles we had done. Again it was super flat so we were biking between 17-18mph and by lunch we had completed 45mi, David was feeling great and I was officially exhausted!!!
Me looking and feeling exhausted

David looking and feeling great, enjoying some friendship bread from Michael and Erleen

At this point I didn't feel like I could do much more but we still didn't have a definite place to stay for the night. So I called Missy to have her check that there wasn't a campground a bit further from Sodus Point or something that we had missed that morning. She found nothing but she didn't have friends that lived about 20mi west of Rochester which would make our day about 80mi in total. So after saying by to her the plan was keep heading west and before going North to Sodus point we check in with Missy to see if she had heard from her friends. Well plans changed about 20min later when it started to rain...our first rain during the day of the trip. Bummer.

We stopped at a McDonalds soon after that to see if it would clear and learned that the weather forcast said rain until late tonight so we put our rain gear on, put our sandals on to keep our sneakers dry, put our lights on, made sure our gear was packed properly to stay dry and then headed out slow toward Sodus Point which was about 15mi from where we were. We ended up in Sodus Point around 3:30, the rain had stopped and we heard back from Missy as we were pulling up to the RV park that her friends had invited us to sleep in there guest room. A real bed, hot shower, we wouldn't have to set up camp. It all sounds great but I was exhausted and we were right outside the park. We decided to stay in Sodus Point, relax and set up camp while it wasn't raining. I still think that was the best decision looking back because after relaxing that afternoon I felt great the next day which is good cause I needed the energy.

At the RV Park after attempting to eat 3lbs of pasta

We ate out again that night because there was no grocery store in town. But we ended up getting a huge meal of salad, soup and an estimated 3lbs of pasta for each of us for $20. It was crazy. Of course even after biking 65mi neither one of us could finish our pasta so we both brought it back to our campsite and ate it for breakfast the next morning. Sodus Point is a beautiful and odd place, being right on Lake Ontario in this great bay we thought it would be bustling but it was the opposite, very quite with a small downtown consisting really only a couple of restuarants but we enjoyed our dinner, made margarita's back at the campsite and just before it started to rain again hoped in our tent for some reading of The Mysterious Benedict Society and to bed early. It was a great night and good prep for the next day which turned out to be over 100mi!!

David at the RV enjoying his Margarita and the view of the lake

1 comment:

Gregg Jennings said...

You two are just incredible, I give you mad props Allison; you are a good woman. I miss you guys bunches and would love to chat sometime. Love, Margaret