Gaithersburg Maryland to Warrenton, Virginia; 98km; 823m
vertical climb
Every day has a personality and today it is traffic lights.
We rode down the longest strip mall in the world when we rode Route 29 from
Vienna VA to Warrenton VA. Every 800
metres we had a traffic light. Some
were green - most were red! Some were
on down hills – most were on up hills.
We stop / started are way through Virginia. We are each carrying 20 kg of luggage. When we come to a stop it uses up energy to get started
again. I estimate we went through 140
stoplights today and stopped 70 times.
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| Crossing the Potomac |
We
left Maryland this morning and rode into the District of Columbia. We then crossed the Potomac into Virginia
and rode past the CIA offices. There was a sign at the side of the road that
said “George Bush Centre for Intelligence” which we thought was a contradiction
in terms. We dropped into a bike store for travel information. The shortest route to Warrenton was route
29, which wasn’t recommended by the riders in the store, but we tried it
anyway. It was interval training at its worst, or best depending on how
masochistic one feels.
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| Stop Lights everywhere |
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