We woke up in the "man cave" at King Blossom farm with not very much sleep and had a yummy breakfast courtesy of Jeff and "Cooker Karen". Patches, Beatriz, and John Wordin from Ride 2 Recovery showed up to ride the last two days with us. Patches helped us get started way back in Anacortes so it was good to see him again. We had a short 50 mile ride from Grantham, NH to SPS. Riding with the flock today was Sam Wiit (Jacob's brother), Kristin Van Everen (Oliver's sister), Karen (team mom), and the 3 R2R representatives. It was fun riding with a bigger group. We left around 8 and ended up moving a little bit faster than we had planned so by our water break halfway through we realized we needed to kill quite a bit of time before SPS was expecting us. No problemo - we went full speed ahead to Dos Amigos, our favorite Mexican restaurant in Concord. Shout out to the Dos staff for dealing with the unexpected large crowd of large appetites. After scarfing down burritos, tacos, quesadillas, etc. we rode up to SPS for quite an exciting greeting! As we got closer and closer to campus, we got more and more excited and were singing and cheering louder and louder. Coasting down rectory road to a group of cheering faculty & staff felt so darn good. My personal final destination for the trip was truly SPS so I kept forgetting that we actually had 60 more miles to go until we truly finished the coast to coast ride.
SPS greeted us with ice cream Sundae's and a flurry of reporters. We said hi, hello, whatsup and then went full speed ahead to the docks to jump in and enjoy our very own Turkey Pond.
At 6 Ms. Chicoine, vice rector, hosted us for a killer BBQ at the rectory. Thank you Adam for some of the best food yet. John Wordin, founder of Ride 2 Recovery presented the flock with a R2R jersey signed by many of the R2R warriors. It's really neat.
After dinner we explored the chapel and then went to Chucksters to satisfy our go karting needs. It's bittersweet hanging with the flock for the last night. I'm definitely going to miss the shenanigans with this crew. Tomorrow is a big day - the final push to the Atlantic Ocean! We're riding with quite the army of cyclists.. crazy exciting!
xoxo,
JT
SPS greeted us with ice cream Sundae's and a flurry of reporters. We said hi, hello, whatsup and then went full speed ahead to the docks to jump in and enjoy our very own Turkey Pond.
At 6 Ms. Chicoine, vice rector, hosted us for a killer BBQ at the rectory. Thank you Adam for some of the best food yet. John Wordin, founder of Ride 2 Recovery presented the flock with a R2R jersey signed by many of the R2R warriors. It's really neat.
After dinner we explored the chapel and then went to Chucksters to satisfy our go karting needs. It's bittersweet hanging with the flock for the last night. I'm definitely going to miss the shenanigans with this crew. Tomorrow is a big day - the final push to the Atlantic Ocean! We're riding with quite the army of cyclists.. crazy exciting!
xoxo,
JT
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