Miles: 54.13
Riding Time: 4:19:23
Average Speed: 12.5
Cum. Miles: 3339.41
Today was the Big Ride's first and only $5 breakfast. I enjoyed this because it was an excuse to delay the riding some more and relax in Gettysburg. We rode back in town and found this place called Ernie's. I bought a scrapple egg sandwich with some coffee and french toast. Right before we were about to pay and leave, Dan Scott decided to pay for everyone's breakfast, which was extremely nice of him, thank you Dan, so we all covered the tip. We crossed into the final state of the trip today, as well as my homestate, Maryland! Everyone almost blew past the Maryland sign but I noticed it, stopped and told everyone to turn around.
Today we rode with Helyn for just about the whole day, as well as other rider's here and there. Once we got to Kathy's waterstop, a couple of us found some soft grass under a shaded tree, and before we knew it we were waking up from an hour and a half nap. The next main stop was downtown Frederick. Our original plan was to go to this old Medical Museum which sounded pretty neat but we ended up spending too much time at lunch, and certainly we didn't want to miss dinner. We ate lunch at this place called the Orchard. It was a vegetarian's dream restaurant, but they also had meat too so I got some chicken szechuan stir fry, which was excellent. As we were on our way to Little Bennett campground, Helyn ended up getting a flat tire. We changed that real quick on the side of the road and then we were back headed for camp. Today we cut the time pretty close. We showed up at the same time the first shuttle to dinner was leaving. Basically we changed clothes and sat down for a few minutes until the second shuttle came. The shuttle took us to the local Applebee's.
Once we got to Applebee's, we found out the ALAW was going to cover the full bill, minus alcoholic beverages. Thank you ALAW. That made my decision pretty easy, it was definetly going to be an appetizer, dinner and dessert meal. It was extremely hectic in there and I felt kinda sorry for the poor servers trying to keep a group of 50 hungry biker's satisfied. I started with some onion rings, then a NY strip for dinner and finally an ice cream sundae for dessert. The oldest rider, Bob Jone's gave a nice little talk to everyone about his experience, as well as a little talk from Liz to represent "the younger riders." Dinner was really fun tonight to see everyone together for a while, but the fun certainly didn't end there.
Soon after we got back to the campground, we held a surprisingly well thought and planned out first and last Big Ride wedding between Adam and Margo. It was really cool the way they incorporated stuff from the ride into the vowels and stuff and we all had a good laugh for about an hour. There was father Bob Jones, Rabbi Rodney, Helyn was Adam's mother and Greg was Margo's dad. Barry was the ring bearer, or should I say front tire bearer. It was really cool, and then Jodi had a song, as well as Kari also performed a song for everyone. Phil and Brian gave out a few select rewards for random stuff to some people which was pretty funny and everyone just kind of hung out and talked until we all went to bed.
We had our last slumber party in my tent that I set up in the dark with Ben on these little gravel pits they had because it was a little hilly. The insects in the woods were insanely loud and surprisingly we all feel asleep somewhat fast with anticipation of tomorrow.
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