42 miles to Chippokes Plantation State Park
We drove over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (no bicycling allowed) and up to the Norfolk Naval Base. I had never been to the base and decided to check it out. Wow, it is huge. The NEX is massive and has tons of departments. We took the opportunity to purchase a few things we needed, then headed up to Portsmouth to restart our ride. Carla and Luisa joined us for just a short time since we had to travel on a pretty busy road out of the city. We were sad to see them leave. It was so great to have all of our friends for moral support and companionship
Once we got out of the city, the traffic thinned out and the ride was a little easier. We had the wind behind us today and we made much better time. We hit rain off and on, but it wasn’t too heavy. We were rewarded at the end of the ride with a beautiful set of double rainbows. All in all, a great ending for the day.
Bob had the trailer all set up and it was like coming home for the night. Once we get comfortable with everything, it will be a lot easier and more routine.
Beautiful!
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