Beach Day

It takes a lot of boxes to fit a tandem in... a whole tent full of them!!



Windy and stormy weather at least make for beautiful lake scenes



The beach

July 18

We finally have a day just to enjoy the beach. We were able to sleep in and check the internet and then hit the beach…It is just too bad that a hurricane (or at least gale force winds) hit our beach for the entire day! So we never really actually got in the water but we did sit on the shore and watch the waves crash as others were trying to suntan. However, watching the waves and lake only kept us occupied for so long so we decided to head to the nearest gas station and try our luck at getting some fuel for our stove. This was only mildly successful at first as no one was there and once again our card wouldn’t work in the machine so we waited for a passerby to come and ask them if we could pay them in cash to fill up our bottle. After about 45 minutes of waiting the first person pulled in on a scooter and filled our bottle with a bit of convincing. After topping off the fuel bottle we headed for the shelter of the campground TV room and watched Le Tour with several other campground patrons. After the tour finished we decided to cook dinner and box up our bike to ship home. As you can imagine the boxing process for a tandem can be very time consuming as it is so fragile and large, but finally at about midnight we finished with it and called it a night.

6km to the gas station
Nate