Our first full day out on the road on the blue tandem. We had some pre-dawn excitement when some raccoons took our bathroom bag at the campsite near Athens. We fought them off and saved our stuff, but the toothpaste, Dr. Bronner’s soap and sunscreen containers were all broken.
We pulled over to stretch this morning when a couple on a purple Santana tandem pulling a BOB trailer passed us. They are riding the same route to Maine as we are, so maybe we’ll see them again. They are from Nelsonville, Ohio. What a coincidence that we started our trips on the same day.
The state highways we are riding on are pretty good. The shoulders come and go, but there is very little traffic. We made it 60 miles to Marietta today. That is our longest one day ride on the tandem yet. It is much hillier here than either of us expected. We are tired and a bit sore.
We are staying in a restored Victorian Era hotel with antique furniture. The hallways stink of cigarette smoke and the ventilation is bad. The bathtub is nice. Marietta was the first settlement in the NW Territory, founded in 1788, right on the Ohio River.
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