Today was down as a rest day. One to spend catching up with my wife and son, and relaxing. It started with us making our way to the B&B to collect them. From there we went for a walk down the high street, browsed the shops and ate breakfast/lunch at the Wetherspoons. Souvenirs were bought, and I had a great time with my family.
As it turned out they had to leave fort william at 2.15pm to make the coach in inverness.
This gave Chris an idea; why not knock off 20 miles from the 85 miler tomorrow - today? For once I couldn't fault the thought. We had been dreading the 85 mile day and this was a perfectly sane way of alleviating this. Some would say even, a good idea!
So once I had said my tearful goodbyes at the departing bus, we set about dropping camp and attempting to reach oban club site (which google reckoned was 21 miles away) before dinner. After all the sun was beaming and temperatures were 'jesus it's hot!' A fight with the gps later and we had directions for 11 miles in the right direction and would re check route once done. At the 11 mile mark it became apparent that google's estimated 21 miles was fishy - a sign said oban 33 miles! A bit of fishing around and route fiddling and it was actually going to be another 25 miles!
Feeling good we thought that would be fine, after all we are used to late nights now, and it was only actually about 5pm. Early by our standards. We travelled along the a82 and a828, both of which were reasonably flat and smooth, if somewhat hair raising when a lorry barrelled past at full bore. The scenery was lovely and Rachel's chain only fell off the once.
We made it to oban caravan and camping club site for a little after 7 and the owners were very kind to open up shop for us to buy food for dinner and breakfast. Decent showers were had before we were nearly eaten alive by the prolific midges who seem to love this walled in campsite.
Only 48 miles to do tomorrow now.
Unplanned Miles cycled: 37
Biker nods reciprocated: 3
Postcards Rachel sent to herself: 1
Pictures to follow as signal is very poor here.
Its the axolotls again - we had to take a few rest days to watch Emmerdale.
ReplyDeleteWell done superteam you're nearly at Lands End! Keep the photos coming...it's the nearest your mum gets to a tree.
Byeeeeeeee
Hahaha (Postcards sent 1) such fun!
ReplyDeleteLove spending time with you, tho short lived, it will help me survive the next few day without you.
Love you
Garsley sun is following me and we have peas,potatoes,broccoli and lettuce growing full speed in the garden.
Love you from your wifey