We’ve been planning this leg of the Atlantic Coast trip for a while, but Tim and I started getting pretty serious about it in the last month or so.  I had ordered the maps from Adventure Cycling and about a month ago, we sat down and planned out an initial itinerary. But, although the miles per day were manageable, the lodging accommodations were not great and would have required making Airbnb reservations at about half of the towns. So we nixed that and decided to re-do the itinerary by using Google bike maps and staying only at hotels. The plan was to rent a car/van at PHL, load up the bikes, drive to JAX and return the car/van, and then bike to ORF, and again rent a car/van, drive up to PHL, and then go home.

Then Beth, after reviewing the itinerary, decided she needed to help us by driving a SAG vehicle. So Tim and I drove Marcia’s SUV down to JAX today and met up with Beth at the JAX Hampton Inn, after she had flown down to JAX from JFK.  We all went out to dinner tonight and tomorrow morning Tim and I will start biking up to the VA beach area. 

Here is a photo of Tim and me taken yesterday evening, before going to bed and trying to get some sleep last night. 

More blogging and photos tomorrow. Good night for now.