After biking the Cape Cod rail trail last summer, I couldn’t wait to do it again this summer. It is something Cooper and I look forward to doing together.
We set off with Jim and James Zanino from the bridge in Dennis, and biked 22 miles at an easy pace with a few breaks here and there, finishing in about 2 hrs 15 minutes. This year was a muchmore enjoyable ride: the kids are older and needless reminding to stay to the right (we didn’t run anyone off the trail this year!), the kids know how to safely cross the road, the kids needed fewer breaks, and no one whined about the ride because we all wanted to be there.
(Super cheesy selfie, but I took this while riding.)
There were long stretches of riding and listening to and admiring the beautiful wonders of nature around me.
We made it all the way to the end. I wasn’t sore the next day, but my legs were definitely tired afterward as I stumbled to the car. It was easier to ride my bike to the car than to walk.
Nate met us at the end of the trail after a morning of fishing.
We celebrated our feat by having our traditional lunch at the Beachcomber in Wellfleet. They have some of THE BEST fresh seafood. We orderedpeel and eat shrimp, little neck clams, Jim had aseaweed salad, I had a crab cake sandwich, Nate had a fisherman’s platter, and Cooper had...you guessed it...a lobster roll!
The Cahoon Hollow Beach is always enticing, but we were tired and sweaty, so just took a quick picture. It’s always fun to see the open ocean, especially from the top of a bluff.
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