Day 04 – Charlottesville, VA to Love, VA
Posted by Kiki | Virginia | Posted on May 29th, 2009
Horses at Bill and Lynn Coffey's in Love, VA
Spent the night at Jen’s (former camp counselor of mine from 1996-1997 when I went to Nature Camp in Vesuvius, VA). We left around 9:45 in the morning and had a pretty long day on the bikes – finally ending around 7pm.
The day was extremely tiresome – our most tiresome yet. We started at 384 ft as our lowest point and climbed to over 3200 ft, and went up and down multiple times on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was climbing for hours and taking many breaks at overlooks to replenish our energy and hydrate.
The Cookie Lady - June Curry!
Me, the Cookie Lady (June Curry), and George
Our polaroid picture that the Cookie Lady took of us for her albums 
Before the Cookie Lady’s, we found a small stream/creek where we stopped and Chris used his water pump to get fresh water and we all played in the water. I went wading since I could and it was hot out – I just walked right in with my Keen Commuter bike shoes so that was awesome:) Very refreshing water and was a nice “morale booster” as George would call it.
Camping in Love, VA
Chris had another bike issue – he blew a tire going around a bend as a car was passing…going uphill. We stopped, he repaired. We took photos and then we continued on to the Cookie Lady’s house in Afton, VA. There we met up with Mack again – he was just heading out as we arrived. June (the Cookie Lady) was really friendly and nice and had lunch stuff for us to make food and we checked out the bike house – it was packed full of postcards, notes, stuff that people left saying thanks and such. It was really neat. We then went and ate lunch with June on her porch and she took our picture with her old polaroid camera and we placed it in her 2009 album behind Mack’s picture. As we were leaving, guess who we saw? MACK! He was biking up from the same direction we had come from about an hour earlier – he did a full loop going uphill, then back down, and then climbing the mountain again. Poor Mack – I would have been drained if I had make that goof up. He decided to call it a day around 2-3pm and stayed at June’s house.
Hours later after all the climbing on the Blue Ridge parkway, we find ourselves camping in Bill and Lynn’s backyard. They were very nice and let us stay there and sleep in our tents and use the bathroom.
Day 4 – Charlottesville, VA to Love, VA
GPS Stats:
46.8 miles
5:32 moving time
8.5 avg speed
38.2 max speed
Computer Stats:
47.86 miles
5:26:12 moving time
8.8 avg speed
38.5 max speed
Miles to date: 253.56 total
Snake count: 0
Dog chases: 0
Favorite piece of gear: Keen Commuter Bike Shoes!
P.S. Heard a bear roar as we were biking past on the Blue Ridge Parkway – pretty cool:)
P.P.S. Almost got caught by the wife Lynn as I was washing off outside the house where we camped. Phew, close call.