Friday, August 8, 2008
Day 75 - 70 Miles to Yorktown - DONE!!!
Friday, 8/08/08 - 70 miles to Yorktown, 4,452 total miles. Rode in to town at 2:15 with 4 cycling friends and a tailwind. Kathy, Kathy Filopowicz, her daughter Sheila and friend Scott were at the Yorktown Victory Monument to greet us and cheer us in. A crowd gathered, took pictures, offered congratulations, and the local trolley rang its bell and yelled out, "welcome to Yorktown." We went to the Yorktown pub for a late lunch and celebration. It was a perfect day and way to finish. Thanks to my wife Kathy for her love and support that made the trip possible. It was a wonderful and magnificent trip full of people, places, and events and memories to last a lifetime. Thanks to all for prayers and support. More thoughts about the trip and pictures to follow.
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5 comments:
Way to go, Tom. What a great accomplishment! Jim and I have enjoyed your blog and pictures. We're looking forward to seeing the rest of your pictures and hearing more about your adventure.
Barbara Froula
Are we there yet? It's about time. Back to cleaning your garage.
You only averaged 7.42 miles per hour after all that. That's taking into account that you were pedaling for 8 hours per day. 7 1/2 miles an hour??? Thats not very good time. You better let the experts race the big ones..
Nice job bro
Michael
Hello Tom. I want t congratulate you on yet another amazing accomplishment to put under your belt of adventures. It was a pleasure to meet you in OR and I wish you the best for many years to come. I should be finishing on August 18th with a bang! 214 miles from Ashton to Yorktown. Ive been popping in quite a few miles to finish on time and am loving every minute of it! Take care of yourself good sir!
Your Friend,
Lucas Kirby (The Piano Man)
I was betting that you would turn around and do it again.
Tom--awesome job! And what a great on-line journal you maintained. You could make this your next career. Hmm, let's see...bike all the world land mass touched by the equator?
Best of all, you made it safely!
Paul Clay
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