Voice Post: 2009 PMC Sun Brewster

[ornoth]

The following is a transcription of a phone post that originally appeared in my main journal, here.

Well we're now in Brewster, which is about halfway through the day. It's now 8:36... 8:35 which means I'm about 15-20 minutes behind schedule. Which isn't bad, I'm not too worried about the schedule today.

Starting to catch up with other riders. Had an awesome pull by a guy named Scott from Framingham that really moved us along pretty well.

My mechanicals seem to be all holding together pretty well, so no worries on that front at this point.

Brewster: we went past the Cape Cod Sea Camps hedge, and we're about to jump onto the Cape Cod Rail Trail briefly, then we get off it, then we get back on it again.

About 3-4 miles from here we go into Orleans, which is where the cape starts turning north at the elbow of Cape Cod. And Orleans was actually invaded by British marines in the War of 1812, and the locals were victorious, and it's also the only site in the US that was ever fired upon in World War 1, it was by a German U-boat.

And a couple miles past that we hit Eastham, which is where the first encounter between Pilgrims and Indians occurred in the New World.

So getting into historical territory, but in terms of my own history, things are going well. It's a little foggy here on the cape, misty, mid-70s. Not a lot of sun right now, but it's very comfortable biking weather, and it's not wet, so no problems, just a little moist and humid.

That's it I will talk to you next... I think the next stop is Wellfleet, which is the penultimate stop.