Mileage: 100 miles
Did you miss us the past few days? Well, we missed our bicycle, but took a few days off. Believe it or not, it was Keegan who was injured! He suffered a corneal abrasion somehow (scratched his eye) badly enough that it was pouring tears and he was light sensitive. So he was in no condition to be in charge of steering us safely for 100 miles! So instead, we rested and caught up on work and took a break to see Jurassic World. We also ordered a lot of supplies for the trip! Thank you Amazon Prime! Rest days are good, Jen's ankle was bothering her unexpectedly on Sunday, so she was weary for the ride. Furthermore, although Saturday and Sunday were beautiful sunny days, Monday was predicted to be rainy. We figured we needed the rain riding practice anyways. So we got up and got prepped. Keegan changed out the tires, or tried. We ordered wider tires for a cushier ride and less flats, but it was too wide to clear the front fork, and just barely fit the back tire. Keegan took a tire off of his other bike to put on the front of the tandem (and spoiler alert: we didn't have any flats!). We also packed ourselves plenty of extra clothing after we learned from last week that riding in the rain and sitting in wet clothes for 100 miles is no fun. We also brought sweatshirts and warm clothes to wear at the restaurants since we may be a bit cold.
For ease, we went to the same place we did last weekend, Brownstone Coffee, in Amityville at the end of the Bethpage Bike Path. It was rainy, so we pulled over to put on our rain gear. We couldn't have the speaker out in the rain, but Jen put it in her rain jacket so we could still hear some muffled tunes. When the rain ended, it actually became quite nice, not sunny, but pleasant. It was actually quite wonderful going through the Bethpage Park because all the animals were out. Bunnies galore! Beautiful orioles fluttering about. AND, we got to see the swan family again!!! It was so exciting to see them. The babies are getting so big each week!
We were in fact quite cold in the restaurant, so we took out our dry clothes. But oh no! Jen's clothes were wet! Turns out there was a hole in one of Keegan's panniers (which we were using). So we learned we would take Jen's on the trip! The rest of the ride was relatively uneventful. We ran into a few road blocks on the path and actually had our scariest near-miss. A big truck didn't see us and was making a right hand turn and we were on the right! Keegan was farther past being on the front of the bike, but the truck was inches from Jen. Scary! Hope we got that part out of the way! No more of that. But even with that and the rain, it was actually quite a nice ride!
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