Today was a day which will live on in infamy.”-Navarro Dodge after rain began while he was riding up a hill.
Our day began with a swiftness unmatched by any of our other wake ups. An 8:30 leaving time gave us an energy which led to the duties of the morning being finished by the same time we were pouring almond milk into our cereal in our other mornings. As we biked down rural roads the aches from our other rides loomed like the grey rain clouds above us: constantly threatening to break our stride. We stopped by a Dunkin Doughnuts and bought for ourselves a sugary treat and fled quickly onto the road. We flew down the street so swiftly that by the time the rain came down we had biked 10 miles, breaking the 100 mile mark on our bike computer odometers. The rain was hard but through strength it made no difference: in fact the rain seemed to embolden us, being a welcome break from the heat of yesterday. Once we stopped by Hanafords, our grocery station of the day we had not broken a sweat and had doubled the amount we rode now reaching 20 miles: the halfway point for the day. As we ate our pickle, mustard, chocolate sandwiches we awaited our next stop: Hudson, NY. Once we got there we drank wonderful coffee and discussed world affairs: which led to a very informative and educated discussion on the Israel Palestine affair. We left with cleared minds meeting back with Suraj who had had a series of bike malfunctions but had fixed them with Gabby using their shared brilliance. While waiting, Navarro, Bella, Gabe, Simon and Juliet also jammed out to Hamilton and Aretha Franklin in the rain with Lis. Next we biked over to our dinner destination where we gluttonly ate pizza and wings. We left and by the light of our blinkers of our bikes and thunderclaps above came to our campsite on the banks if the Hudson River.
–written by Navarro
